Authorities said Thursday that they had caught a teenager allegedly being transgender who allegedly discussed plans for school shooting on the same social media platform used by extremists in similar cases.

Police arrested 18-year-old Trinity Shockley and accused her of planning to attack Mooresville High School in Indiana after a tip from the FBI. Court records show. a Police report Details that others allegedly encouraged her plans with discrepancies in online chat services in a familiar story of online radicalisation.

Shockley’s arrest comes after a fatal shooting Antioch High School Tennessee in January has a few weeks except for another in Wisconsin. A wealth of life Christian school In December. Both were carried out by teenagers who expressed violent thoughts in discordant communities prior to attacks that included neo-Nazi sentiment. Each shooter killed several others at school and took their own life shortly after being injured. (Related: “This is a shame that continues to happen”: Dock Rivers of the Bucks speaks up in Wisconsin Christian School shooting)

Propublica The two shooters even reported interacting with each other in other social media communities dedicated to praise the violence.

The charges against Shockley also reflect the tragedy that has been ongoing since January 2024. This reflects a student fired at Perry High School in Iowa after joining a discordant chat that argued with the “school massacre.” tell Other users about his intentions. He killed a sixth grade boy and injured another fifth grader before committing suicide.

Discord reported a chat to the FBI a few weeks before the shooting at Perry High School. “Discord has a zero-tolerance policy for content that praises violence and violent extremism, which is reflected in community guidelines,” the company told NBC News. Social media accounts showed that Iowa students identified as “he/them” pronouns were active in the transgender-related Reddit community. Post-millennials reported.

The Discord press team did not respond to multiple requests for comments from the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Shockley has been charged with conspiracy to commit murder and create a threat to terrorism, and is placed in prison without being held. Local media. Her court-appointed attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Police say Shockley told the school counselor about his obsession with Nicholas Cruz, a school shooter in Parkland, Florida, and claims he is in love with him and shows her a rocket with a face. I said that.

She was said to have planned to carry out the massacre on Valentine’s Day, the seventh anniversary of Parkland’s shooting. Police reports say she expressed her praise for the other large shooters.

“I’ll be honest. I’m closer to filming [my school] Shockley, who attended “Jamie,” told an unidentified user, according to a detective who obtained a chat record. “We have an AR-15.” “So cool!!!” user replied. “But wait, are you sure you have a solid plan?” The user is said to have said, “Your secret is safe with me.” Another user Shockley is said to have said that in response to sending a photo of the bullet vest, “You’ll look better.”

The FBI was first warned of alleged discordant posts from Shockley via anonymous tips with chat records. The agency contacted the discrepant to request information about Shockley and later informed the findings of the investigation to the Mooresville Metropolitan Police Station. The police report does not discuss the specific motivations for shockly potential attacks beyond the general hatred of people at schools and the romanticisation of mass murder.

“I currently live with my father and my mother has passed away,” Shockley is said to have written in one of three magazines found while searching her home. “I [also] Transgender man. I have a lot of murder ideas. “The police station said, “Each notebook painted the words “kill,” “van,” “I hate you all dying,” among other indecency.”

Shockley previously sought mental health resources at her school and “expressed suicidal thoughts in the past,” the report said. She said in the notebook she was a victim of bullying at school and most people there were “everything.” [waste] of life. ”

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