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New York Post
08-05-2025
- New York Post
Brooklyn boy, 16, busted for making threats to schools in Texas and targeting family of Uvalde massacre victim
A Brooklyn teen was busted for allegedly making multiple threats to schools across Texas and Florida – even personally targeting a relative of one of the victims of the 2022 Uvalde school massacre on TikTok, authorities announced this week. The 16-year-old boy was picked up May 1 at his Brooklyn home and charged with one felony count of making terroristic threats, the Uvalde Police Department said Wednesday. In addition to the threats to the Uvalde shooting victim's family, he is accused of making multiple 'swatting' – or false report – calls and sending threats to the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District on social media back in January, police said. 3 The Brooklyn teen is accused of sending threats directly to a family member of an Uvalde shooting victim on TikTok, police said. AP He also admitted to making multiple swatting calls to schools and law enforcement agencies in Uvalde and San Antonio, as well as Coral Springs, and Parkland, Florida, authorities said. Those threats came a short time after the calls in Uvalde – and investigators ultimately tracked the caller to the New York area, police said. The teen also fessed up to researching active shooter incidents and monitoring social media accounts for law enforcement agencies and students in the Uvalde school district, cops said. 3 In addition to Uvalde, the teen is also accused of 'swatting' schools in San Antonio and Florida, police said. Uvalde Police Department A 3-month investigation dubbed 'Long Arm of Justice' involving 14 agencies across Texas, Florida and New York ultimately led detectives from the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office to the teen's home. Investigators searched his home and found that he did not have access to weapons and had no direct connections to Uvalde, San Antonio or Florida, police said. But the teen's alleged actions 'have had significant implications for school safety, community security, and the allocation of law enforcement resources,' Uvalde police said in a Wednesday release. 3 The teen was charged with one felony count of terroristic threat and four misdemeanor counts of false report of an emergency, police said. Uvalde Police Department 'This operation demonstrates our commitment to working with partners to ensure we hold people accountable for threatening our community,' Uvalde Police Chief Homer E. Delgado said in a statement. 'We will not allow distance or digital anonymity to shield those who try to cause fear or disrupt the safety of our schools and neighborhoods.' The case is being prosecuted in Texas, according to a spokesman for the Brooklyn DA's office, who said his agency simply helped with the arrest. The teen's name was not released by law enforcement because he is a juvenile.
Yahoo
23-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Uvalde City Council unanimously approves settlement with mass shooting victim families
April 23 (UPI) -- The Uvalde City Council Tuesday evening, unanimously approved a settlement with families of Robb Elementary School mass shooting victims. Josh Koskoff, one of the lawyers representing families of the victims, confirmed the settlement but did not detail the terms. He told ABC News that in addition to a monetary settlement, the families of the two teachers and 19 students killed in the shooting wanted the city to maintain the cemetery where many of the mass shooting victims are buried. The settlement also commits the city to support the Uvalde Police Department's Guardian initiative that includes enhanced emergency training and evaluation for officers. Mayor Hector Luevano also said during the Tuesday night city council meeting that the city of Uvalde will work with victim families on a permanent memorial. "Nothing can ever make up the losses and harms these families endured on May 24, 2022, but today's agreement marks an important step forward in advancing community healing, ensuring our city forever honors the lives we tragically lost, and supporting all surviving victims in the 2022 Robb Elementary shooting," Luevano said. The city council approval came 11 months after Koskoff announced in May 2024 that the city agreed to pay $2 million and create a permanent memorial. That suit isn't the only one filed against Uvalde over the Robb Elementary shooting. Another one accuses the Texas Department of Public Safety and 92 officers of failing to engage the gunmen for 77 minutes after arriving at the school. "For 77 minutes, 26 members of the Uvalde Police Department failed to confront an 18-year-old kid armed with an AR-15, and no disciplinary action has ever been taken -- no firings, no demotions, no transparency -- and the families remain eager for that to change," Koskoff said in a May 2024 statement about police reaction.
