Teens Charged In South Pasadena School Shooting Plot

[Locutus]

The two boys allegedly planned to kill three staff members and gun down as many students as possible.

Two South Pasadena teens have been charged with allegedly planning a shooting at their high school, prosecutors said Wednesday.

The boys, aged 16 and 17, are each charged with one count of making criminal threats.

Both are slated to be arraigned this afternoon in Pasadena Juvenile Court.

The teens allegedly began making detailed arrangements to kill three staff members at South Pasadena High School and gun down as many students as possible.

The pair told another student about the mass shooting plan and they threatened to kill him, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.

The plan was thwarted after the boys were arrested following a police investigation into the alleged plot.
The boys were arrested Monday, August 18, after a search of their homes. South Pasadena Police Chief Art Miller said the threat the teo posed was credible.

"It was very viable, what they were plotting," Miller said. "They were making a huge plan of a school massacre."

Searches of the boys' computers turned up evience they were looking at weapons, bomb making supplies and bulletproof vests, Miller said.


Teens Charged In South Pasadena School Shooting Plot | NBC Southern California

 

[QuebecCanadian]

The two boys allegedly planned to kill three staff members and gun down as many students as possible.

Two South Pasadena teens have been charged with allegedly planning a shooting at their high school, prosecutors said Wednesday.

The boys, aged 16 and 17, are each charged with one count of making criminal threats.

Both are slated to be arraigned this afternoon in Pasadena Juvenile Court.

The teens allegedly began making detailed arrangements to kill three staff members at South Pasadena High School and gun down as many students as possible.

The pair told another student about the mass shooting plan and they threatened to kill him, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.

The plan was thwarted after the boys were arrested following a police investigation into the alleged plot.
The boys were arrested Monday, August 18, after a search of their homes. South Pasadena Police Chief Art Miller said the threat the teo posed was credible.

"It was very viable, what they were plotting," Miller said. "They were making a huge plan of a school massacre."

Searches of the boys' computers turned up evience they were looking at weapons, bomb making supplies and bulletproof vests, Miller said.


Teens Charged In South Pasadena School Shooting Plot | NBC Southern California

I really hope they take theses kids and study the crap out of them. Try to figure out what makes kids think like this. Is this narcissism to the extreme? Want to be in the headlines without really considering the consequences?

I read a really interesting article in Time many years ago that said the part of the brain that controls logic and common sense develops a few years after (early adulthood) the part that controls risk taking and impulse (in the teens). Made a lot of sense and seems to be confirmed with all these late teen/young adult impulsive acts.