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A teen threatened to shoot up his school. Is keeping him in jail the answer?
Alex Ye's crime was clear.
In online messages, a book he was writing and statements made to others, the 19-year-old had mentioned shooting up his school so often that he was charged and convicted of making a threat of mass violence.
How to punish him was not.
'There are no good options in this case,' Maryland Judge Jill Cummins said this week moments before imposing her sentence. 'I'm sitting here struggling — and I want to be quite clear, struggling — to determine what is the best outcome. And I have to figure out the best outcome for this community as well as for Mr. Ye.'
