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Yahoo
14-02-2025
- Yahoo
Authorities prevent ‘Parkland part two' Valentine's Day school shooting in Indiana
MOORESVILLE, Ind. (WTVO) — An 18-year-old student at an Indiana high school has been arrested after police said she planned to carry out a mass shooting on Valentine's Day. Police say Trinity Shockley planned to carry out the shooting at Mooresville High School, located just outside of Indianapolis, but a friend sent in a police tip on Tuesday. Authorities learned she had been planning the attack for a year, had access to an AR-15, and ordered a bulletproof vest. Shockley was arrested Wednesday. During a search of the apartment she shared with her father, police said they found a collage of mass shooters, including Dylan Roof, who killed multiple people in a church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina. They also said she had a photo album of mass shooters. Authorities said Shockley was attracted to Nikolas Cruz, the perpetrator in the Parkland High School mass shooting in Florida, which happened on Valentine's Day 2018. Police said she admitted to writing to Cruz in prison and owned a heart locket with his photo within. '(Shockley's) motivation for making the plan is Cruz,' police documents obtained by said. '(Shockley) has an emotional attachment to Cruz. (Shockley's) message behind the plan is that (Shockley) does not like people who think they are better than everyone else and people should value their everyday life. You never know and could die at any minute.' Police investigators said Shockley went by 'Crazy Nikolaz' on Discord and as a 12th-grade transgender male named Jamie on Snapchat, where she said the planned shooting would be 'Parkland part two.' Investigators also revealed that in another conversation, Shockley said she planned to shoot someone she had a crush on. Authorities also said that in several notebooks recovered from her room, Shockley identified as 'Dex…a transgender male (who has) a lot of homicidal thoughts,' and expressed a desire to hurt others. She has been charged with conspiracy to commit murder, threatening to commit terrorism, and conspiracy to commit terrorism. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Express Tribune
14-02-2025
- Express Tribune
US teen charged with plotting Valentine's Day massacre, inspired by Parkland shooter
Listen to article An Indiana teen, Trinity Shockley, has been charged with conspiracy to commit murder and terrorism-related offenses after allegedly plotting a mass shooting at her school on Valentine's Day. The 18-year-old, who prefers to be called Jamie, is accused of being fixated on Nikolas Cruz, the gunman responsible for the Parkland, Florida, school massacre in 2018, which killed 17 people. Shockley, a senior at Mooresville High School, was arrested following a tip to the Sandy Hook tip line, which led to an investigation revealing disturbing plans to carry out a mass shooting. According to authorities, Shockley had been grieving her mother's recent death and had faced bullying after a tragic accident involving a drunk driver. These personal struggles, along with her obsession with mass shooters, fueled her violent intentions. The investigation was a collaboration between local police, the FBI, and an anonymous tipster, who reported Shockley's access to weapons and her admiration for Cruz. Authorities discovered messages Shockley had sent planning the attack, including one that referenced 'Parkland part two,' and evidence of her admiration for Cruz, including a necklace with his photo. Shockley's home was searched, where investigators found notebooks, disturbing messages, and evidence of further fixation on mass shootings. Shockley was arrested and remains in the Morgan County Jail without bond. The community of Mooresville, a small town near Indianapolis, was left in shock by the news of the alleged plot. Mooresville Schools Superintendent Jake Allen praised the swift actions of law enforcement, saying their response prevented a potential tragedy.
CBS News
14-02-2025
- CBS News
Teen arrested in Valentine's Day school shooting plot near Indianapolis
MOORESVILLE, Ind. (CBS) — A teen is facing felony charges for plotting to shoot up a high school on Valentine's Day. Trinity Shockley, 18, was arrested following an FBI tip, where investigators said she planned to use an AR-15 to shoot up Mooresville High School at 11 W. Carlisle St., southwest of Indianapolis. According to court documents, detectives found a "family photo-style" gallery of previous school shooters on her bedroom wall. She also said she had a crush on the shooter who carried out the 2018 Parkland high school massacre in Florida. School counselors told police that she tried to get help for mental health issues but that her father denied her access to school resources.
The Independent
14-02-2025
- The Independent
Teen girl planned to commit ‘Parkland part two' in Valentine's Day school shooting, police say
A teenage girl who developed an 'emotional attachment' with a convicted school shooter has been accused of plotting a massacre at her high school which she branded ' Parkland part two,' police say. Trinity Shockley, 18, was arrested at Mooresville High School in Mooresville, Indiana, after allegedly planning an attack for Friday on the seventh anniversary of the Parkland school shooting – which saw 17 students and staff gunned down on Valentine's Day in 2018. The suspect was charged Thursday with one felony count of conspiracy to commit murder and two counts of intimidation with a threat to commit terrorism, court records show. She is being held in the Morgan County jail in Martinsville without bond. Mooresville Metropolitan Police Department detectives received details on a person suspected of plotting the massacre by the FBI at about 7 p.m. on Tuesday before later identifying Shockley, police said. She was taken into custody after police and the Morgan County Sheriff's Office executed search warrants at her home. Shockley's father owns an AR-15 and an armored vest, though they were not kept in the house, police said. Writing on the instant messaging service Discord, the teen allegedly said that the shooting would be 'Parkland part two,' according to authorities. Detectives said that Shockley had an obsession with Nikolas Cruz, the convicted murderer behind the Parkland school shooting; Dylan Roof, a neo-Nazi who shot dead nine people inside of a historically Black South Carolina Church in 2015; and Randy Stair, the so-called 'YouTube Killer' who killed three supermarket co-workers on 2017, before taking his own life. All three men were found on a collage of mass murderers in the defendant's bedroom, police say. A poster of the film 2002 film Zero Day, a movie about two boys who conduct a school shooting, was also hung on Shockley's wall and taken into evidence by detectives, per the filing. The girl also allegedly signed off an excerpt in her notebook, 'Hail Elliot Rodger! Supreme Gentleman!,' who killed six people in a stabbing and shooting spree in California in 2014 before turning the gun on himself. However, police said Shockley's main motivation for the attack was Cruz. She had allegedly been planning the attack for over a year. 'Trinity's motivation for making the plan is Cruz. She wanted to prove that she is his number one fan,' a detective wrote in a probable cause document. 'Trinity has an emotional attachment to Cruz.' The defendant also boasted on the Discord chat that she had access to an AR-15, the same rifle used by Cruz in the mass shooting, according to court documents. Shockley had sought mental health resources from her school district since she was a freshman, per the filings. Each time, her father, Timothy Shockley, would allegedly deny access to those resources because he 'did not believe in mental health treatment'.
Yahoo
14-02-2025
- Yahoo
Indiana teen arrested for allegedly plotting a mass shooting
A teenage girl was arrested on Thursday for allegedly plotting a mass shooting at her high school on Valentine's Day. Trinity Shockley, 18, was arrested for conspiracy to commit murder, intimidation and conspiracy to commit intimidation. She is being held without bond in the Morgan County Jail in Martinsville, Indiana. According to a probable cause filing submitted to the court, the FBI's Sandy Hook Promise Say Something Anonymous Reporting System contacted the local sheriff after a tipster said their friend was planning an attack, had access to an AR-15 rifle and had just ordered a bulletproof vest. It said the tip revealed that the person in question was obsessed with Nikolas Cruz, the mass murderer who opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, on Feb. 14, 2018. He killed 14 students and three staff members. The tipster described their friend as "Jamie," a 12th grader who identified as transgender, according to court documents. Snapchat messages sent to the tip line included one where "Jamie" characterized her plans as "Parkland part two," records showed. "I've been planning this for a YEAR," she said in one of the cited messages. MORE: 11 dead in worst mass shooting in Sweden's history, authorities say Court documents showed that Shockley sought mental health counseling on Tuesday at Mooresville High School, where she was a senior. She disclosed being sexually attracted to Cruz and said that "she has already named the children" she planned to have with him, according to the documents. They also claimed that she showed the counselor a heart locket necklace with Cruz's photo inside and said she had written to him several times. Police executed a search warrant of the apartment Shockley shared with her father on Wednesday, according to official documentation, at which point they discovered on Shockley's bedroom wall photos of Cruz; Dylan Roof, who killed nine people at a South Carolina church in 2015; and Andrew Blaze, who killed three people at a Pennsylvania grocery store in 2017. The teen's backpack was decorated with buttons of the killers' faces -- which also graced the wallpaper of her laptop, officials said. On display in her room was a poster for "Zero Day," a 2003 film depicting a school shooting, court documents showed, and inside her notebooks were illustrations of swastikas and the words "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 school, according to official records. "These thoughts won't stop. I want to hurt others. All of the time!" the documents showed her writing last month. As the anonymous tip about "Jamie" suggested, Shockley's home contained AR-15 magazines, ammunition and a soft armor vest, police said. MORE: Federal appeals court strikes down ban on handgun sales to teens Shockley later told investigators that she was "joking" about her plans and said that she did not have access to a gun, court documents revealed; however, Shockley's cited social media posts contained photos of the magazines, flattering messages about Cruz and Roof, and threats to carry out a school shooting. The Mooresville Schools district released a statement saying that it was aware of the arrest and that Shockley "will not return to the school." Mooresville Police Detective Matthew McDaniel said in court records that Shockley had received mental health counseling since freshman year and had expressed suicidal thoughts in the past but that the school said "nothing was significant enough to cause intervention." Her father "would deny her the access to the resources" each time Trinity "would try to receive mental health assistance," according to information McDaniel said he received from the school. "It was [the school's] understanding that Mr. Shockley did not believe in mental health treatment and did not take his daughter's conditions seriously," McDaniel said in the probable cause filing, explaining that when Trinity turned 18 last November, she signed up for treatment on her own. Shockley told investigators she was bullied after a drunk driver struck her in 2022 while she was waiting for the school bus, the documents said. The incident, according to local media reports, left her with a fractured femur, fractured arm, sprained ACL, two brain contusions and a web compression fracture. At the time, the school rallied around her and raised more than $12,000 for her recovery. "They've been really responsive," her aunt Angela Altmeyer told at local reporter at the time. "They've been wanting to send cards and whatever they can do." ABC News reached out to Trinity Shockley's father, Tim Shockley, and other family members for comment. No court date has been set. Indiana teen arrested for allegedly plotting a mass shooting originally appeared on
