Trans High School Student Arrested For Planning School Shooting

Montgomery County police have charged an 18-year-old trans-identifying highschool pupil in reference to a deliberate faculty taking pictures. Authorities found a 129-page doc that detailed her plans to hold out the center and elementary faculty shootings, saying “younger youngsters make simpler targets.”

The recordsdata belong to Andrei Ye of Rockville, Maryland, a pupil who identifies as a boy and goes by the identify Alex. On Wednesday, the Montgomery County Police Division arrested {the teenager} following a joint investigation between the police and the FBI's Baltimore department.

In line with an MCPD information launch, the FBI notified police of a 129-page memo that appeared to include the scholar's plans to commit mass shootings at Wootton Excessive College and Lakewood Elementary College.

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The police took the scholar into custody and he or she was charged with threatening mass violence. Ye is being held within the Montgomery County Central Processing Unit pending a bond listening to.

The warrant consists of excerpts from Ye's writings, which stated her aim was to “set the world document for probably the most taking pictures kills.”

Whereas Ye claimed the writings have been fiction, somebody she shared the doc with contacted police final month after noticing a personality within the supposed story bore a “hanging resemblance” to Ye.

The coed's writings said that she would “cherry choose the lessons which might be the simplest targets.” The following line reads: “I additionally thought-about taking pictures up my former elementary faculty as a result of younger youngsters make simpler targets.”

The individual Ye shared the doc with, referred to within the warrant as “Witness One,” contacted the Baltimore County Police Division, which on March 3 referred to as the Rockville Police Division to conduct a welfare test. In line with the report, Ye's household denied entry to the coverage and refused to point out them recordsdata of concern with out permission.

“Shortly after police responded to Ye's residence, Ye revoked entry to the Witness-One doc. “Witness-one didn’t learn the doc and didn’t know if there was any further info within the doc concerning the main points of the varsity taking pictures,” the warrant stated. “Sergeant Saffar of the MCPD BAAU/Menace Evaluation Group was knowledgeable of the incident on 04/03/2024. Sergeant Saffar instantly acknowledged Alex Ye from the earlier risk investigation.”

In line with the report, Ye was beforehand hospitalized in December 2022 for homicidal and suicidal ideas and for threatening to “shoot up the varsity”. {The teenager} was finally launched from hospital in January 2023; nevertheless, the report said that “Ye was nonetheless preoccupied with self-harm, faculty shootings, and explosives.”

“As reported to MCPD and FBI investigators, roughly from [Feb. 20, 2023, to July 20, 2023,] Ye was hospitalized on the Johns Hopkins Pediatric Unit for homicidal ideation,” the doc reads. “You additionally claimed to be Jesus Christ and have been going to crucify your self. When Ye was launched, he was despatched to a residential facility.

The warrant additionally confirmed Ye's search engine historical past, which included queries about varied faculty shootings lately and close by taking pictures ranges.

Along with the search historical past, the warrant included an Instagram message from December 2023 during which Ye wrote, “Sure, however I additionally really feel like taking pictures individuals can be enjoyable and scary.” One other message Ye wrote the identical month stated, “I additionally informed too many individuals that I wish to shoot up my faculty as random individuals know.'

Ye's search historical past additionally included queries concerning the March 2023 taking pictures at Covenant College in Nashville, Tennessee. The shooter in that case, who was additionally a trans-identified lady, killed three nine-year-old college students and three adults.