{"id":416251,"date":"2025-12-01T01:47:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T01:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/416251\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T01:47:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T01:47:13","slug":"fbi-tip-averts-potential-mass-shooting-in-indiana-teen-sentenced-to-20-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/416251\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI tip averts potential mass shooting in Indiana; teen sentenced to 20 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MOORESVILLE, Ind. (TNND) \u2014 A 19-year-old teenager who was convicted of <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationaldesk.com\/news\/americas-news-now\/mooresville-indians-teen-trinity-shockley-arrested-in-valentines-day-high-school-shooting-inspired-by-parkland-massacre-nikolas-cruz-court-documents-affidavit-morgan-county-sheriffs-office-ar-15-bulletproof-vest-terrorism-mental-health-school-counselor#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">plotting a mass shooting<\/a> at an Indiana high school earlier this year has been sentenced.<\/p>\n<p>Trinity Shockley was sentenced to 20 years in prison with eight years suspended after pleading guilty to conspiracy to murder on Nov. 24. According to online court records, Shockley\u2019s sentence will be followed by five years of probation.<\/p>\n<p>Shockley emotionally apologized to the intended target in court and to the community, saying, \u201cI am so sorry I put you in that position of fear,\u201d according to WFYI-FM. Shockley said her mental health had gotten better after being surrounded by \u201cpeople that care about me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She was arrested after the FBI\u2019s Sandy Hook tip line was alerted by a friend who claimed that the high school senior was planning to commit a mass shooting on Feb. 14 at Mooresville High School.<\/p>\n<p>The tip said Shockley \u201cadmired\u201d Nikolas Cruz, a shooter who caused the deadly 2018 mass shooting at Majorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. She also had access to an AR-15 and ordered a bulletproof vest. Shockley has stated she has previously experienced bullying.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Shockley\u2019s attorney, Joseph Gaunt, argued that his client did not intend to follow through with the mass shooting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MOORESVILLE, Ind. (TNND) \u2014 A 19-year-old teenager who was convicted of plotting a mass shooting at an Indiana&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":416252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,7202,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-416251","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-san-antonio","10":"tag-sanantonio","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115641794139868410","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416251","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=416251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}