Posted on 08/06/2011 8:06:28 PM PDT by BBell
While their classmates were playing ball, learning to drive or working at part-time jobs this summer, three students at Lakeshore High School near Mandeville spent the past several weeks plotting a shooting spree for the first day of school next week that would have targeted at least one student and a faculty member, authorities said Friday.
The plan, which the boys planned to conclude with their own suicides, was sniffed out and foiled by St. Tammany Parish sheriff's deputies and school officials. The three teens who called their group "Day Zero" then were arrested and booked with conspiracy to commit terrorism.
The names of the three teenagers, all of whom are 15-year-old males, have not been released. Sheriff Jack Strain could not confirm there weren't other members of the group, but "what we can say is that there were no other participants in this (plan)."
St. Tammany Parish Superintendent Trey Folse said other Lakeshore students became aware of the plot and they alerted school administrators, who in turn informed the Sheriff's Office on July 17.
"I am so grateful that they stepped forward and brought this information to us," Folse said.
According to Strain, the three teens all were students at the school north of Mandeville, which opened two years ago. Two of the males were from the Lacombe area and one was from the Mandeville area, he said.
One of the boys was taken into custody Wednesday and the other two surrendered Thursday. None has a criminal history, but each admitted to participating in the plot, the sheriff said.
"There was a great amount of detail. I don't want to confirm or deny what those details were, but there was a great amount of detail we were able to seize," Strain said. "... The intelligence that was gathered and the evidence that was collected
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Damn....
Good on the students for reporting this.
A friend’s daughter goes to that school.
ping
Did she know of the three kids?
I never thought of Lakeshore High as being a bad school. Columbine was not a bad school though.
I don’t know. Probably.
I know. It is the times we live in. I’m grateful to have grown up in a time when life was pretty good.
the boys planned to conclude with their own suicidesMake sure they have nooses in their cells.
Don't you know it!! I can't imagine anyone thinking like that when I was in high school.
Who remembers the yo-yo fad around 1960? Everybody owned two or three and played with them in the hallways, so they banned yo-yos at school.
If yo-yos were banned in school, how did Barry get in??
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