‘He’s just a little boy’: Mom cries as teens, 13 and 14, arrested for plotting Columbine-style school attack
September 13, 2021 | Jon Dougherty
Two young Florida teens have been arrested after a fellow student tipped off teachers and school staff that they were plotting a massacre similar to those committed at Columbine High School in a suburb of Denver two decades ago.
Deputies from Lee County arrested Connor Pruett, 13, and Phillip Byrd, 14, both of whom are eighth-grade students at Harns Marsh Middle School in Lehigh Acres, which is located near Fort Myers along Florida’s Gulf Coast. On Sunday, both boys appeared before a judge who ordered them held in juvenile detention for at least 21 days, according to local news station WINK.
According to reports on Monday, administrators and deputies found Pruett and Byrd with a detailed map of the school that also showed the location of all of its security cameras.
Police found that the two eighth-graders were also trying to learn how to construct a pipe bomb, conducting research into the purchase of firearms on the black market, and had been studying the Columbine shooting which, at the time of the incident in April 1999, became the deadliest school shooting in the country until a similar mass murder took place Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., in February 2018.
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