A Queens pupil who pledged to shoot up a highschool on social media was busted with a loaded gun Thursday after Instagram moderators flagged his disturbing publish, officers and sources stated.
The 16-year-old pupil at Benjamin Cardozo Excessive College was nabbed by college security officers after the FBI traced the telephone quantity related to the account tabbed by Instagram.
The male pupil allegedly shared an image of a model sketch captioned “boutta shoot the varsity up.”
He was situated on college grounds with a loaded handgun, sources instructed The Submit. Nobody was injured and the scholar was taken into custody with out incident.
New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams celebrated regulation enforcement’s speedy work as “the right instance of the system working correctly.”
“Somebody noticed the publish from the scholar and did what we ask all New Yorkers to do – in the event you see one thing, say one thing, however most significantly do one thing, and that’s what they did,” Adams stated.
“We doubtlessly saved the lives of lots of college students and workers at the moment, and I don’t need to think about a world the place we’d be making a unique announcement proper now.”
