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-Lurid Crime Tales-

Inside the terrifying arsenal lair of boy, 13, planning school massacre...fit with dozens of guns and chilling manifesto

2025-09-10

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A Washington teenager was arrested after investigators found a large cache of weapons and writings about 'mass shooting scenarios' in his home.

The alleged would-be killer, who has not been named, was obsessed with 'previous mass shooters' and 'idolized' them as he hatched a chilling plot to carry out his own murder spree, cops said.

The Pierce County Sheriff's Office said they descended on the boy's home in Tacoma, Washington after being notified on Friday afternoon that he was 'making threats to kill.'

Following a sweep of his home on Saturday morning, authorities said they seized a 'large quantity' of guns.

The boy also owned 'loaded magazines with school shooter writings on them' and clothes and writings that reinforce a 'typical mass shooting scenario', authorities said.

Nuts, drugs, or a psychopath?

Deputy Carly Cappetto with the Pierce County Sheriff's Office told ABC News that a total of 23 firearms were found in the home, many of which appeared to be homemade using 3D printed parts.

How sturdy would a printed gun be? Would they crumble quickly or stand up to several changes of magazines?

Footage of the weapons seized showed long lines of weapons laid out on tables, most of which appeared to be long guns and AR-style rifles.

The teenager is now facing charges including attempted threat to bomb or injure a school, unlawful possession of a firearm and unlawful possession of fireworks.

Cappetto added that the boy's parents have not been charged at this time, which has become increasingly common in the wake of school shootings.

After cops were alerted to the teenager's alleged 'threats to kill', a review of his social media found a slew of chilling posts showing a 'fascination of recent school shootings/mass casualty attacks', court records showed.

He also posted pictures dating back to June of him posing with guns and made remarks referencing shootings including the 1999 Columbine High School mass shooting and the 2022 Uvalde, Texas, elementary school massacre, cops said.

In an alleged similarity to the horror shooting of a Catholic school church in Minneapolis last month, the boy had written references to mass shootings and killers on magazines for his AR-style weapons.

The charges for unlawful possession of fireworks also came from an array of potential explosives recovered from the home, records said.

Officials said the 13-year-old was not currently enrolled in any school district, and he was last enrolled in the Franklin Pierce School District in 2021.

Since age nine?? Was he being homeschooled, or was something more interesting going on?

In a statement to ABC News, the school district said: 'We were notified by local law enforcement personnel that a young person in our community was arrested for allegedly planning a school shooting.

'We continue to work with the Pierce County Sheriff's Office to ensure that this individual is not a threat to our schools or our community as a whole.'

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