LEHIGH ACRES, Fla. (WFLA) — A 12-year-old pupil was arrested Thursday after authorities in Lee County mentioned they discovered his written manifesto with plans to make bombs and plant them round his faculty.
The Lee County Sheriff’s Workplace mentioned detectives have been alerted to the scholar’s actions after his friends at Veterans Park Academy for the Arts noticed him creating “regarding drawings.”
A type of drawings included a map of the college, depicting the precise spots the place he would place bombs across the campus, based on officers. Investigators mentioned the 12-year-old boy had additionally written a manifesto wherein he “declared his intention to commit violent acts.”
A assessment of his school-issued Chromebook additionally revealed regarding search exercise. Detectives mentioned the teenager had appeared up bomb-making movies and researched notable serial killers and terrorists.
The 12-year-old was charged with written or digital threats to conduct an act of terrorism and threats to throw, undertaking, place or discharge any damaging gadget, the sheriff’s workplace mentioned.
“I’m past pleased with the scholars who spoke up once they discovered their peer had made violent plans,” mentioned Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno. “The Faculty Menace Enforcement Staff started investigating instantly and uncovered disturbing renderings to hold out a violent act inside the college. LCSO detectives will proceed to analyze and depart no stone unturned to make sure the protection of Lee County college students.”
The investigation remained ongoing Thursday evening, and no additional particulars have been instantly obtainable.
