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The NYPD contacted the a parent who consented to a search of the student\u2019s belongings and police found a Taurus .9 mm semi-automatic handgun in the student\u2019s backpack.NYPD<\/p>\nAuthorities in New York City said they prevented a potential high school shooting after the FBI, acting on a tip, alerted them to a social media post that appeared to threaten to \u201cshoot the school up,\u201d officials said Thursday. <\/p>\n
The 16-year-old student was arrested at Queens\u2019 Benjamin Cardozo High School after he was found with a .9 mm handgun that had 13 rounds in the magazine, New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch told reporters.<\/p>\n
Tisch did not say what charges the sophomore may face.<\/p>\n
The student, who was not publicly identified, was taken into custody at 12:36 p.m., roughly two hours after he posted the message on Instagram, Tisch said, noting that authorities believe he wrote the post at school.<\/p>\n
A screenshot of the post shared by the New York Police Department showed a photo of schoolwork with a short message that included “boutta shoot the school up.\u201d<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for Instagram declined to comment.<\/p>\n
New York City Mayor Eric Adams said a tipster initially alerted authorities to the post. The FBI became aware of it at 11:33 a.m. and provided information associated with the Instagram account \u2014 including the user\u2019s phone number and geolocation \u2014 to New York City police, Tisch said.<\/p>\n
The student was removed from class without incident and brought to a conference room, where investigators dialed the phone number associated with the account, Tisch said.<\/p>\n
After the student’s phone rang, authorities requested consent from the teen\u2019s mother to search his bag, Tisch said. Inside they found the loaded Taurus .9 mm., she said.<\/p>\n
The NYPD contacted the a parent who consented to a search of the student\u2019s belongings and police found a Taurus .9 mm semi-automatic handgun in the student\u2019s backpack.NYPD<\/p>\n
In a statement, the FBI’s New York City field office said the swift response “demonstrates the importance of close partnerships and the critical need for information-sharing to ensure our city and students are protected against unnecessary acts of violence.\u201d<\/p>\n
“This was a failure of a society that allows 16 year olds to get so close to shooting up a school and potentially killing classmates and teachers,” Adams said.<\/p>\n
He added, however, that the system “worked.”<\/p>\n
“This is what cooperation looks like,” Adams said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities in New York City said they prevented a potential high school shooting after the FBI, acting on…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":237690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-237689","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-newyork","12":"tag-newyorkcity","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115228253109199354","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}