A Queens pupil who pledged to shoot up a highschool on social media was busted with a loaded gun Thursday after Instagram moderators flagged his disturbing submit, officers and sources stated.
The 16-year-old pupil at Benjamin Cardozo Excessive Faculty was nabbed by college security officers after the FBI traced the telephone quantity related to the account tabbed by Instagram.
The male pupil allegedly shared an image of a model sketch captioned “boutta shoot the college up.”
He was situated on college grounds with a loaded handgun, sources instructed The Put up. Nobody was injured and the coed was taken into custody with out incident.
New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams celebrated regulation enforcement’s speedy work as “the right instance of the system working correctly.”
“Somebody noticed the submit from the coed and did what we ask all New Yorkers to do – for those who see one thing, say one thing, however most significantly do one thing, and that’s what they did,” Adams stated.
“We doubtlessly saved the lives of quite a lot of college students and employees as we speak, and I don’t need to think about a world the place we might be making a unique announcement proper now.”
