After Learning Of Shooting Plot, Parents Turn In Their Own Kid

By Tom Knighton

A Michigan family may have done one of the most difficult things humanly possible. The parents of a 15-year-old found out their son had a plan to kill as many of his classmates as possible and to blow up the school. Upon learning that, they did the only thing they could really think of: they notified the police of their son’s plans.

A 15-year-old boy in Michigan who allegedly planned a school shooting could be tried as an adult.

“He came to us and said that he’s been really upset and said that he’s been planning to do something bad,” the boy’s stepfather, who asked to remain unidentified, told WOOD-TV. “It was a big shock.”

The teen, who is also not being identified because he is a minor, was arraigned Monday on firearms and explosives charges.

The boy’s parents say their son had been bullied since starting school at Paw Paw High School, and that things escalated when a picture of the teen in his underwear began circulating.

“Since that point, it’s just been relentless,” the stepfather said, adding that bullies would push the boy into lockers and punch him in the throat.

Over the weekend, the boy told his …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms