Maryland high school student arrested after authorities discovered a 129-page document detailing school shooting plan, police say
Maryland high school student arrested after authorities discovered a 129-page document detailing school shooting plan, police say
A Maryland high school student was arrested and charged with threat of mass violence after police say they discovered evidence revealing the teen had plans to commit a school shooting, authorities said Thursday.
A Maryland high school student was arrested and charged with threat of mass violence after police say they discovered evidence revealing the teen had plans to commit a school shooting, authorities said Thursday.
The arrest on Wednesday came after authorities discovered a 129-page document they say was written by 18-year-old Alex Ye, the Montgomery County Department of Police said in a news release Thursday.
Authorities learned of the writings following an exchange Ye had via Instagram messaging with an unidentified person who felt a school shooting was “imminent,” according to the teenager’s arrest warrant. The unidentified person knew Ye from an inpatient treatment at a local psychiatric facility, the warrant says.
Ye referred to the writings as “his memoir,” which begins with a disclaimer that it is a work of fiction, the arrest warrant says.
How the fuck do you write 129 pages' worth of this?!
Probably by descending into psychotic, self-aggrandising gibberish.
Yes, this person has lost touch with reality. They need serious help, not incarceration. This will potentially end up with them being held incompetent to stand trial.
Wait just had this argument with my boss. He said that conference were in Vegas those assclowns got together to plan on how to seize voting machines etc wasn't illegal. He says you can't be charged for planning an attack. I gave a scenario of me planning a bank robbery. He said not a crime to plan it.
Yet here we are they arrested this kid. If says a work of fiction can he really be charged? Not saying he wasn't nuts what not just what to know how you charge them?
Because lots of people write fiction scenario I am sure of shit wish they could do but would never do so.
Your boss is a moron. Conspiracy is a crime. If you and I plan to rob a bank, and you ask me to go get masks to further the crime, and I do, we have all committed conspiracy to rob a bank.
In this case, the kid's lawyer may be able to make a persuasive case it was just a dark fiction, but if there is evidence he was doing more than just writing? Idk. I'm not a lawyer.
Technically a conspiracy requires an overt act, after which all the planning then becomes evidence of said conspiracy.
People are often blown up by the US government for planning an attack. So that's an, em... interesting philosophy your boss has.
So much comes with the intentions.
It's not illegal to create a plan to rob a bank on its own. It becomes a crime when it gets specific, like dates and locations. If they can show intention to commit the act, it becomes a crime.
But that doesn't mean they won't necessarily arrest you anyway. Going through an arrest, jail, and court proceedings just to be acquitted still sucks.
Very large print. Maybe 80pt size.
Large margins. Double spaced.
Adderall
These days some people's names are really long. That's my guess, I don't know.
The article put these two lines out of order. Let me fix that for them:
“In the document, Ye writes about committing a school shooting, and strategizes how to carry out the act. Ye also contemplates targeting an elementary school and says that he wants to be famous,” police said in the news release. A search warrant obtained by investigators “led to internet searches, drawings and documents related to threats of mass violence.”
Ye referred to the writings as “his memoir,” which begins with a disclaimer that it is a work of fiction, the arrest warrant says.
That's a 'work of fiction' along with OJ's book about how he would have killed his ex-wife and her boyfriend.
Wow. Just imagine believing that the tenuous negative press coverage is worth the lives of dozens of children and your own life / incarceration.
Welp, guess the "in Minecraft" defense doesn't work.
He hasn't been convicted yet.
Slam dunk case for his defense, it is clearly a work of fiction, as indicated, and merely an intellectual exercise and a valuable study of the vulnerabilities of the hypothetical target that law enforcement should learn from and compensate the young man for.
Glad that little shit was stopped. He should have planned to film himself playing with sparklers after a petrol bath if he wanted to get famous.
Being labeled a work of fiction probably carries less weight when this person has been treated for homicidal ideations at an inpatient facility twice. Unless there’s a link where this document is really a physician-ordered tool to address inner demons or something, it’s probably not going to aid in defense.
129 pages!?! Wtf...
I just wrote training documentation on an IT technology and it wasn't even that long.
What really gets me is the waste of labor here.
This kid was halfway to a first novel. Almost zero writers can say they completed their first legitimate work before 18.
Like... What a fucking shame.
I love how they never say why the kid says he was going to shoot up the school. Couldn't be because of being horribly bullied... Naw.
Literally doesn't matter. There is no amount of bullying that justifies you murdering another person and especially if that also involves killing or scaring innocent bystanders. If you think a school shooting is a valid response to being bullied, you are a piece a shit that deserves to he bullied.
Nobody has ever suggested that something like this is justified. You're reacting viscerally to someone suggesting that we try to understand the context in which this person developed, what motivates them, etc. That sort of information can be helpful to understand what drives people to these sorts of behaviors and how they can be helped.
I don't think bullying alone would make one write a 129 page manifesto about shooting up an elementary school, unless of course the 18 year old was being bullied by 4th graders.
High school student writes 129 pages about how he wants to shoot up an elementary school and you think bullying is the cause?
For Columbine specifically, while the killers claimed they were doing it because of bullying, it turns out that was nearly entirely a bullshit justification. Even if it was, two wrongs don’t make a right.
Glad to see procrastination got the better of him