TACOMA, Wash. (AP) \u2014 A 13-year-old boy described by police as obsessed with school shooters was arrested on multiple firearms possession charges and causing a threat after they say they found social media posts about intentions to kill and seized 23 guns and ammunition from his home. <\/p>\n
The boy pleaded not guilty to a total of five charges, four of them felonies, in juvenile court on Monday. He was arrested over the weekend in Washington\u2019s Pierce County. <\/p>\n
The boy\u2019s name has not been released. It was not immediately known if he had a lawyer. Juvenile court records are generally confidential. <\/p>\n
Firearms were mounted on walls and handguns were found unsecured throughout the home, sheriff\u2019s Deputy Carly Cappetto said in a news release Monday. <\/p>\n
\u201cSeveral pieces of evidence from the suspect\u2019s bedroom indicated he was obsessed with past school shooters and imitated similar behaviors with photos and inscriptions throughout his room,\u201d she said. Loaded magazines with school shooter writings on them were removed.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt appeared the suspect had everything ready to go to commit a mass shooting type of incident. It is unknown who or what the intended target was going to be, but it\u2019s clear it was a matter of time before a tragic incident occurred,\u201d Cappetto said. <\/p>\n
The boy\u2019s parents said their son had no intention of harming anyone. His mother, who attended the court hearing, suggested in an interview afterward that the social media posts were an attempt to \u201cbe cool\u201d among peers, KOMO-TV reported. <\/p>\n
Cappetto said the boy was last enrolled in the Franklin Pierce School District in 2021. He was currently unenrolled and was not currently an active student in any school district. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TACOMA, Wash. (AP) \u2014 A 13-year-old boy described by police as obsessed with school shooters was arrested on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,89858,2302,3071,793,7922,3073,89857,4381,3,30020,4382,795,21,19,22,20,25,24,2003,2002],"class_list":{"0":"post-144857","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-carly-cappetto","10":"tag-courts","11":"tag-crime","12":"tag-general-news","13":"tag-gun-violence","14":"tag-indictments","15":"tag-juvenile-corrections","16":"tag-law-enforcement","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-school-shootings","19":"tag-shootings","20":"tag-u-s-news","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa","27":"tag-wa-state-wire","28":"tag-washington"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}