A Maryland high school student was arrested and charged with threat of mass violence after police say they discovered evidence revealing the teen had plans to commit a school shooting, authorities said Thursday.
The arrest on Wednesday came after authorities discovered a 129-page document they say was written by 18-year-old Alex Ye, the Montgomery County Department of Police said in a news release Thursday.
Authorities learned of the writings following an exchange Ye had via Instagram messaging with an unidentified person who felt a school shooting was “imminent,” according to the teenager’s arrest warrant. The unidentified person knew Ye from an inpatient treatment at a local psychiatric facility, the warrant says.
Ye referred to the writings as “his memoir,” which begins with a disclaimer that it is a work of fiction, the arrest warrant says.
I love how they never say why the kid says he was going to shoot up the school. Couldn’t be because of being horribly bullied… Naw.
Literally doesn’t matter. There is no amount of bullying that justifies you murdering another person and especially if that also involves killing or scaring innocent bystanders. If you think a school shooting is a valid response to being bullied, you are a piece a shit that deserves to he bullied.
It’s not about justifying it, it’s about understanding the conditions that cause people to want to shoot up a school in the first place.
Yup. And I think we need to make more honest attempts to ignore opinions like two posts above just rage reacting. It doesn’t help anything and just further alienates us from finding the truth cause it’s shrugged off as insane.
Nobody has ever suggested that something like this is justified. You’re reacting viscerally to someone suggesting that we try to understand the context in which this person developed, what motivates them, etc. That sort of information can be helpful to understand what drives people to these sorts of behaviors and how they can be helped.
If this kid turns out to be bullied, it has the same relevance as him playing call of duty. There are literally millions of bullied kids in the world and only some of them shoot up a school.
When columbine happened the media had this narrative about the kids being bullied and it being some kind of revenge on the school. They weren’t bullied, they were just anti-social sadsacks and psychopaths. But the narrative probably inspired a couple of the following thousands of shootings.
You seem to have this strange view on bullying as if it can’t destroy a person. In fact people never recover from it. Some empathy is deserved here.
I have gallons of empathy for people that are bullied. That all goes away when they murder people. Lots of kids get brutally bullied and they don’t murder anyone. Murder is not a natural reaction to being bullied.
Empathy is Especially not deserved here where the “kid” is fucking 18 and wrote about attacking a middle school.
I should think that it’s possible to show empathy towards a person while simultaneously condemning their actions. They are not exclusive from one another. You’re still deciding who deserves or does not deserve empathy, but everyone who has ever lived deserves empathy.
Yes, I am deciding who deserves sympathy. School shooters is not in that group.
The “oh he was a tortured soul, if only someone had seen him” schtick makes the narcissistic little fuckers rock hard.
You dont give serial killers cool names and you dont give school shooters any attention outside of being sad losers. That is the responsible thing to do.
Fucking lmao
“You believe violence is a justified response to being bullied? You deserve to be bullied.”
Dumbass
Did I say violence or did I perhaps say murder? Sorry but I don’t think the correct reaction to being bullied is to murder a bunch of 10 year olds, not even if they are shitty 10 year olds.
I don’t think bullying alone would make one write a 129 page manifesto about shooting up an elementary school, unless of course the 18 year old was being bullied by 4th graders.
High school student writes 129 pages about how he wants to shoot up an elementary school and you think bullying is the cause?
That implies the are justifications for shooting up a school that are valid.
There are no such justifications, so the reason doesn’t matter
For Columbine specifically, while the killers claimed they were doing it because of bullying, it turns out that was nearly entirely a bullshit justification. Even if it was, two wrongs don’t make a right.