A grandmother in Everett, Washington, is being applauded by police for possibly stopping another school shooting, and she did it the day before the horrible attack in Florida.
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Everett police say that they received a phone call from the grandmother of 18-year-old Joshua Alexander O’Connor. She had discovered troubling plans in his journal that appeared to describe a plan to attack his high school.
“Officers were also told the grandson had a rifle stored in a guitar case,” a statement from police said.
“As officers reviewed copies of the journal,” it continued, “they were alarmed at the statements and detailed plans to shoot students and use homemade explosive devices at ACES High School.”
“I need to make this count,” O’Connor allegedly wrote in one journal, according to the Daily Herald. “I’ve been reviewing many mass shootings/bombings (and attempted bombings) I’m learning from past shooters/bombers mistakes.”
“I’m preparing myself for the school shooting,” he wrote in another journal entry. “I can’t wait. My aim has gotten much more accurate… I can’t wait to walk into that class and blow all those (expletives) away.”
The grandmother showed officers excerpts from the journal. The teen had written about flipping a coin to choose if he would target Kamiak High School or ACES, the alternative school he transferred to in October. His school was picked in the coin flip.
Another entry described an armed robbery of a convenience store. Police believe it was a holdup from 10 p.m. Monday in the 900 block of W Casino Road. Security cameras showed two masked robbers entered the store. One pointed what the cashier thought was an AK-47 rifle, although part of the gun was covered by a sweatshirt, according to court papers.
The pair left with about $100. Cash from the robbery was supposed to help fund the school shooting, deputy prosecutor Andrew Alsdorf said in court Wednesday.
Dude was arrested and charged, and that’s what happens when people actually tell the authorities when they see something bad, and when the authorities listen to them AND ACTUALLY DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. I’m looking in your general direction, FBI!!!!