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(NewsNation) — Two 12-year-old mediate schoolhouse students were arrested and charged Monday successful transportation to a schoolhouse shooter menace successful Laredo, Texas, conscionable days aft 4 radical were killed successful Georgia.
The 2 girls allegedly posted to a Snapchat chat country “I’m going to beryllium a schoolhouse shooter,” according to the Laredo Police Department.
Investigator Joe Baeza, LPD Public Information Officer, told NewsNation Wednesday that some of the girls’ parents were caught disconnected defender by the allegations, but they complied with constabulary and allowed a hunt of their residences. No weapons were found.
Given the quality of the alleged threats against Cigarroa Middle School, which is wrong the Laredo Independent School District, the schoolhouse closed and did not person classes, on with respective different country schools. The neighboring Cigarroa High School canceled classes arsenic well.
The threats against the Laredo mediate schoolhouse came little than a week aft a 14-year-old lad shot and killed 2 students and 2 teachers astatine his Winder, Georgia, precocious school.
Also, Laredo is astir 130 miles southwest of Uvalde, wherever an 18-year-old antheral killed 19 children and 2 teachers astatine Robb Elementary School.
The 12-year-olds successful Laredo are facing felony charges for making terroristic threats and stay successful a juvenile detention center. A justice ordered Tuesday to clasp them for astatine slightest 10 days, according to section quality outlet KGNS News. The Webb County Attorney's Office is weighing whether to complaint them arsenic juveniles oregon arsenic adults.
The minors' property and sex marque this lawsuit particularly unique. The deadliest schoolhouse shooters person typically been successful their precocious teens, according to a Washington Post analysis. Perpetrators person besides typically been males, the Post found.
A Laredo Police Department conveyance flashes its lights astatine the country of a call. Laredo, Texas, is successful the southwest of the authorities on the U.S.-Mexico border.“In my 25-span career, this is the youngest I’ve seen this drastic," Baeza said. “Usually this (type of threat) isn’t coming from the pistillate gender. Most of our troublemakers person been mostly guys. These 2 young ladies person changed that dynamic."
The LPD has investigated 11 schoolhouse shooting-related threats since the commencement of the schoolhouse twelvemonth successful mid-August.
A motive for the alleged threats is unknown, but constabulary judge it could person been said successful a joking manner. Law enforcement was not taking immoderate chances and instantly enlisted the Texas Anti-Gang portion to analyse successful tandem.
"Imagine arsenic a genitor getting a wakeup telephone from constabulary looking for your 12-year-old due to the fact that she said thing astir apt successful jest oregon thing she didn’t consciousness she would transportation out," Baeza told NewsNation. "But why, successful the temperament that we unrecorded in, would you accidental those things? … It’s a hard acquisition to beryllium learned.”
The FBI recognized the Laredo PD antecedently for its swift enactment involving schoolhouse menace investigations, including successful the lawsuit of Brandon Speed, a Laredo antheral who was initially arrested for making terroristic threats related to the Uvalde schoolhouse shooting and aboriginal sentenced to national prison for making mendacious statements during a firearm purchase.
“It doesn’t substance what size oregon whether they’re 12-year-old girls oregon successful their 20s oregon whatever,” Baeza said “We instrumentality each these cases precise seriously, (and) there’s not 1 that we don’t rapidly travel up on."
