Four PA Students Charged In “Columbine” Plot [VIDEO]

Wilkes-Barre’s NBC News affiliate reports:

Four Pennsylvania high school students have been charged, two as adults and two as juveniles, for conspiring to carry out an attack on the school on the 25th anniversary of the Columbine massacre, Lackawanna County District Attorney Mark Powell announced Friday.

According to court paperwork, text messages were uncovered between the students discussing plans to “shoot up the school”, with another student calling “dibs” on a specific victim.

The students wrote that they “hated” Dunmore High School and wanted “everything to go down like that,” referring to the 1999 Columbine High School mass shooting, investigators say. It was also noted by investigators the intended date chosen was April 20, 2024, the 25th anniversary of the shootings.

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