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Tip helps police thwart school attack in North Carolina

Jan 9, 2009 11:36 AM

A teenager who authorities say was plotting to "shoot up" a North Carolina high school is in custody because of a tip from a teen who chatted with the suspect online. Investigators took a 15-year-old boy into custody last week and found at his home a computer and DVD with plans for an attack on Brevard High School in Transylvania County, N.C. Police would not say whether weapons were found. The boy had told a 16-year-old girl from New York earlier that day that he planned to "shoot up a school." The two were chatting on the MySpace social networking Web site.
 
SIDEBAR: An Ulster County, N.Y., teenager’s report to the police last week spurred authorities to discover evidence and plans by a North Carolina juvenile for a school shooting.
To read The Middletown Times Herald-Record article, click here.

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