Brokers with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) and native authorities intervened and disrupted what might have led to a college capturing in Washington, D.C., the company mentioned Thursday.
The ATF and the Metro Transit Police have been concerned within the incident.
A minor was arrested Wednesday night time on suspicion of threats to kidnap and injure, receiving stolen property, possession of a large-capacity feeding system, and illegal possession of weapons and ammunition, White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt mentioned.
Authorities served a search warrant associated to the case and located seven weapons.
The unidentified juvenile was arrested after an investigation primarily based on social media posts that contained alleged violent threats towards a faculty.
“So, this was a juvenile who was a danger to not simply himself, however the group right here in Washington,” Leavitt mentioned. “And he was faraway from the group final night time due to the legislation enforcement efforts of this administration.”
Fox Information Digital has reached out to the ATF.
The arrest got here the day after a gunman killed two kids and wounded greater than a dozen others throughout Mass on the Annunciation Catholic Faculty in Minneapolis.
The shooter died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara mentioned.
