Police: 2 California boys planned school shooting
Source: Associated Press
Police: 2 California boys planned school shooting
| August 18, 2014 | Updated: August 18, 2014 9:40pm
SOUTH PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Two teenage boys were arrested Monday after making specific plans to kill three staffers then gun down as many students as possible at their Southern California high school, police said.
The boys, who did not yet have weapons but were trying to get them, had been under constant surveillance since the school district informed police of their plans last Thursday, South Pasadena police Sgt. Brian Solinsky said.
He would not elaborate on the plans or what form they took, but Solinsky said they were "very specific" and included named targets.
"This is a prime example of school officials recognizing suspicious behavior," Solinsky said in a statement. "It was this information that helped prevent a horrific tragedy."
Police found evidence that the boys were researching rifles, submachine guns, bombs and other explosives, especially propane, police said.
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I hope the Police have more evidence then the boys went on the net and looked at "rifles, submachine guns, bombs and other explosives, especially propane". Many, if not most, teenage boys do that. Such teenage boys then do nothing more and they get on with their lives.
Hopefully the police have found something the boys have made, i.e. something REAL, not just "Plans" with items they did not and could not get. Whatever it is hopefully it is not something that is normally found in a home, for example not just having a propane cylinder in their home (Through a propane cylinder when their parents have nothing that uses propane would be something "Real"
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The only item readily available on the list provided by the Police would be propane. The problem is propane is used in home cooking and welding. Thus the mere possession of a propane cylinder proves nothing but on the other hand possession of such a cylinder can show that this is more then research on how to do damage to people in the school, i.e. actual building of what would be needed to do the damage wanted. Context may be important. i.e. the boys were found in the same house as a propane cylinder, but the propane cylinder was being used by one of their parents to do repairs on their water pipes. In such a context, the cylinder proves nothing. On the other hand if their parents do NOT have a blow torch that uses propane, why did they have a propane cylinder? (If that is the case, if the boys had a propane cylinder, a fact that has NOT been released and thus is pure speculation on my part).
Just a comment, that, hopefully, the police did not jump on some teenagers do what teenagers do, but instead went after someone actually preparing to do harm.
I'm not sure I agree that "many if not most" teenage boys research "rifles, submachine guns, bombs and other explosives" on the internet or elsewhere. Do you know of studies to support that?
