Here’s what helped thwart a potential Valentine’s Day school shooting in Indiana
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A call to an anonymous tip line set off a chain of events that helped thwart a potential Valentine’s Day mass shooting in Indiana, authorities say.
A call to an anonymous tip line created after the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, set off a chain of events that helped thwart a potential Valentine’s Day mass shooting in Indiana, authorities say. Trinity Shockley, 18, is facing conspiracy to commit murder and two terrorism-related charges after being accused of plotting a school shooting on Friday at Mooresville High School in Morgan County, according to police and court records. Shockley is charged under the name Trinity but is transgender and goes by the name Jamie, according to an affidavit obtained by CNN affiliate WISH. It’s unclear which pronouns Shockley uses. Shockley’s arrest came after a person contacted the Say Something Anonymous Reporting System on Monday. The tipster said a friend had access to an AR-15 rifle, had just ordered a bulletproof vest and admired Nikolas Cruz, who carried out a February 2018 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, killing 14 students and three school staff members. The reporting system operated by Sandy Hook Promise, the violence prevention group launched by parents who lost children in the Sandy Hook massacre, then notified the FBI per their protocol, and sent them screen shots of messages Shockley appeared to have sent on the messaging app Discord, according to an arrest affidavit. The FBI passed the tip to the Wisconsin Department of Justice, as they initially believed the threats originated from that state. Wisconsin DOJ then notified investigators with the Washington County Sheriff’s Office. Their detectives determined a Wisconsin woman, whom the tipster believed to be the one making threats, was not the suspect and there were no local schools at risk of being targeted. Further investigation found that Wisconsin woman had allegedly been in contact with Shockley via a chat group about school shooters. The woman wasn’t arrested or charged and was released from custody after being interviewed by investigators.
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