FL Middle Schoolers Charged In “Columbine-Like” Plot

ABC News reports:

Two Florida middle schoolers with an apparent interest in the Columbine High School massacre were allegedly plotting to carry out a school shooting of their own until a teacher was tipped off about a possible concealed weapon, authorities said.

The teacher at Harns Marsh Middle School in Lehigh Acres, near Fort Myers, alerted school administrators and a school resource officer about the tip from students Wednesday, authorities said.

A search of an eighth grader’s backpack did not turn up a gun, but administrators allegedly found a map that “contains markings indicating the location of each of the school’s interior cameras,” Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno said during a press briefing Thursday afternoon.

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