Two Florida mediate schoolhouse students were arrested Thursday for allegedly plotting to transportation retired a schoolhouse shooting.
"This could person been the adjacent Parkland massacre, but we stopped them successful the readying stages,” said Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno.
The students, who authorities accidental are 13 and 14 years old, took an involvement successful the Columbine schoolhouse shooting, which near 13 victims dead.
Marceno said a teacher astatine Harns Marsh Middle School successful Lehigh Acres contacted the schoolhouse administrators and the schoolhouse assets serviceman aft a pupil told them 1 of the suspects had a weapon successful his backpack.
No limb was recovered successful the backpack, but Marceno said the pupil was successful possession of a map, which showed wherever the schoolhouse cameras are located.
Upon further investigation, Marceno said they located a weapon and knives astatine the students’ homes.
The boys were scheduled to acquisition a intelligence evaluation, Marceno said.