Indiana Girl’s Planned Attack on High School Foiled by FBI, Local Officers
On Tuesday evening, local law enforcement received a tip from the FBI about a planned school shooting at Mooresville High School. A person of interest was later identified as Trinity Shockley, a news release from the department said.
An 18-year-old Mooresville (Indiana) High School student who had a collage of mass shooters in her bedroom was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly planning a school shooting on Valentine’s Day.
According to court documents recently filed in Morgan County by the Mooresville Metropolitan Police Department, Trinity Shockley was arrested on the following charges:
• One count of conspiracy to commit murder, a Level 1 felony
• One count of intimidation: threat to commit terrorism, a Level 5 felony
• One count of conspiracy to commit intimidation: threat to commit terrorism, a Level 5 felony
On Tuesday evening, local law enforcement received a tip from the FBI about a planned school shooting at Mooresville High School. A person of interest was later identified as Shockley, a news release from the department said.
The release said that detectives with the department, along with officials from the Morgan County Sheriff’s Office and Mooresville School Police, executed search warrants at Shockley’s home and took Shockley into custody.
On Tuesday, the Sandy Hook Tip Line through the Federal Bureau of Investigation contacted officials with the Morgan County Sheriff’s Department in regards to a potential threat to Mooresville High School, Fox59 reports.
The tip stated that a person, later identified as Shockley, was planning a shooting and had access to an AR-15 rifle and had ordered a bullet-resistant vest. The tip stated that Shockley reportedly admired Nikolas Cruz, the man who conducted the shooting at Parkland High School in Florida which occurred on Valentine’s Day in 2018.
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