A teenage lady was arrested on Thursday for allegedly plotting a mass taking pictures at her highschool on Valentine’s Day.
Trinity Shockley, 18, was arrested for conspiracy to commit homicide, intimidation and conspiracy to commit intimidation. She is being held with out bond within the Morgan County Jail in Martinsville, Indiana.
On this reserving photograph launched by the Morgan County Sheriff’s Workplace, Trinity Shockley is proven.
Morgan County Sheriff’s Workplace
In response to a possible trigger submitting submitted to the courtroom, the FBI’s Sandy Hook Promise Say One thing Nameless Reporting System contacted the native sheriff after a tipster mentioned their pal was planning an assault, had entry to an AR-15 rifle and had simply ordered a bulletproof vest.
It mentioned the tip revealed that the particular person in query was obsessive about Nikolas Cruz, the mass assassin who opened fireplace at Marjory Stoneman Douglas Excessive College in Parkland, Florida, on Feb. 14, 2018. He killed 14 college students and three workers members.
The tipster described their pal as “Jamie,” a twelfth grader who recognized as transgender, in accordance with courtroom paperwork. Snapchat messages despatched to the tip line included one the place “Jamie” characterised her plans as “Parkland half two,” data confirmed.
“I have been planning this for a YEAR,” she mentioned in one of many cited messages.
Court docket paperwork confirmed that Shockley sought psychological well being counseling on Tuesday at Mooresville Excessive College, the place she was a senior.
She disclosed being sexually interested in Cruz and mentioned that “she has already named the kids” she deliberate to have with him, in accordance with the paperwork. Additionally they claimed that she confirmed the counselor a coronary heart locket necklace with Cruz’s photograph inside and mentioned she had written to him a number of instances.
Police executed a search warrant of the residence Shockley shared together with her father on Wednesday, in accordance with official documentation, at which level they found on Shockley’s bed room wall pictures of Cruz; Dylan Roof, who killed 9 individuals at a South Carolina church in 2015; and Andrew Blaze, who killed three individuals at a Pennsylvania grocery retailer in 2017.
The teenager’s backpack was adorned with buttons of the killers’ faces — which additionally graced the wallpaper of her laptop computer, officers mentioned. On show in her room was a poster for “Zero Day,” a 2003 movie depicting a college taking pictures, courtroom paperwork confirmed, and inside her notebooks had been illustrations of swastikas and the phrases “kill,” “bang” and “I hate you all DIE DIE DIE.”
Her diary entries contained confessions of self-loathing and revelations that she was bullied in class, in accordance with official data. “These ideas will not cease. I wish to damage others. The entire time!” the paperwork confirmed her writing final month.
Because the nameless tip about “Jamie” prompt, Shockley’s house contained AR-15 magazines, ammunition and a gentle armor vest, police mentioned.
Shockley later instructed investigators that she was “joking” about her plans and mentioned that she didn’t have entry to a gun, courtroom paperwork revealed; nevertheless, Shockley’s cited social media posts contained pictures of the magazines, flattering messages about Cruz and Roof, and threats to hold out a college taking pictures.
The Mooresville Faculties district launched an announcement saying that it was conscious of the arrest and that Shockley “is not going to return to the varsity.”
Mooresville Police Detective Matthew McDaniel mentioned in courtroom data that Shockley had obtained psychological well being counseling since freshman 12 months and had expressed suicidal ideas previously however that the varsity mentioned “nothing was vital sufficient to trigger intervention.”
Her father “would deny her the entry to the sources” every time Trinity “would attempt to obtain psychological well being help,” in accordance with data McDaniel mentioned he obtained from the varsity.
“It was [the school’s] understanding that Mr. Shockley didn’t imagine in psychological well being remedy and didn’t take his daughter’s situations severely,” McDaniel mentioned within the possible trigger submitting, explaining that when Trinity turned 18 final November, she signed up for remedy on her personal.
On this display seize from Google Maps Avenue View, Mooresville Excessive College is proven in Mooresville, Indiana.
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Shockley instructed investigators she was bullied after a drunk driver struck her in 2022 whereas she was ready for the varsity bus, the paperwork mentioned.
The incident, in accordance with native media studies, left her with a fractured femur, fractured arm, sprained ACL, two mind contusions and an internet compression fracture.
On the time, the varsity rallied round her and raised greater than $12,000 for her restoration.
“They have been actually responsive,” her aunt Angela Altmeyer instructed at native reporter on the time. “They have been desirous to ship playing cards and no matter they’ll do.”
ABC Information reached out to Trinity Shockley’s father, Tim Shockley, and different relations for remark. No courtroom date has been set.