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OKIsItJustMe

(21,207 posts)
Fri Feb 14, 2025, 07:21 PM Feb 14

Sandy Hook Promise Prevents A Mass School Shooting In Indiana

https://www.sandyhookpromise.org/press-releases/sandy-hook-promise-prevents-a-mass-school-shooting-in-indiana/
February 14, 2025 Press Release

Sandy Hook Promise Prevents A Mass School Shooting In Indiana
NEWTOWN, Conn. – After an Upstander took heroic steps to report their concerns to the Sandy Hook Promise Anonymous Reporting System, law enforcement was able to intervene and prevent a planned school attack at Mooresville High School in Indiana this week. An 18-year-old suspect was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit murder, and other charges, after authorities conducted an investigation and uncovered numerous written threats, other materials that idolized former mass shooters, and high-capacity magazines and ammunition in a parent’s bedroom. The tipster reported the suspect had access to firearms and had been planning the attack for up to a year.

This attack was planned for February 14, the same date of the Majorie Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida. Law enforcement states the Indiana suspect was a “fan” of the Parkland shooting perpetrator and had written to them in prison.

According to local media sources who cite court documents in this recent case, the tip about this planned attack initially came in through Sandy Hook Promise’s Say Something Anonymous Reporting System. The National Crisis Center of the Say Something Anonymous Reporting System immediately reported these threats to the FBI, per protocol.

In response, Nicole Hockley, co-founder and co-CEO of Sandy Hook Promise and mother of Dylan who was killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy, issued the following statement:

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Sandy Hook Promise Prevents A Mass School Shooting In Indiana (Original Post) OKIsItJustMe Feb 14 OP
kudos to the person who called in that tip Skittles Feb 14 #1
Wow. They have this set up? I had no idea. underpants Feb 14 #2
first I've heard of it too Skittles Feb 14 #4
Fantastic! ShazzieB Feb 14 #3
High capacity magazine in the parents' bedroom ..... 3Hotdogs Feb 14 #5
Horrible "parenting" Dock_Yard Feb 14 #8
Kudos to the caller and the young people who set up this hotline. Hope22 Feb 14 #6
I hope going forward we'll have an FBI able and willing MadameButterfly Feb 14 #7
Hah!! Not till 2029 at the soonest. Dock_Yard Feb 14 #9
I do wonder if they'll do any real MadameButterfly Feb 14 #10

underpants

(189,587 posts)
2. Wow. They have this set up? I had no idea.
Fri Feb 14, 2025, 07:48 PM
Feb 14

That’s really thinking THROUGH the solution. Incredible really.

Skittles

(162,921 posts)
4. first I've heard of it too
Fri Feb 14, 2025, 07:54 PM
Feb 14

people (especially young peers) may have suspicions but be very reluctant to notify school officials or local LEO for fear it may not amount to anything and come back to haunt them.......an anonymous tip line is a great idea

ShazzieB

(20,006 posts)
3. Fantastic!
Fri Feb 14, 2025, 07:53 PM
Feb 14
This attack was planned for February 14, the same date of the Majorie Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida.


Just imagine, we could all be reading a completely different and very tragic news story right now if this upstander had not reported what they knew, and if Sandy's Hook Promise hadn't made it so easy for them to do so. Lives were saved!

3Hotdogs

(14,035 posts)
5. High capacity magazine in the parents' bedroom .....
Fri Feb 14, 2025, 08:32 PM
Feb 14

Way to go, Mom and Dad.

If it wasn't for the Sandy Hook website, there would have been 3 assholes wearing orange instead of just one.

Dock_Yard

(190 posts)
8. Horrible "parenting"
Fri Feb 14, 2025, 09:23 PM
Feb 14

To me, that the "parents" were harboring a weapons/munitions dump inside their bedroom is the most disgusting aspect. And to think how many OTHER US dads have the same setup, driven by deeply irrational fears of ... [what exactly?]. These are scary people who have huge mental problems and only listen to information sources that bolster their sick world views.

But Nicole Hockley and her co-workers are heroes for almost literally stopping this planned massacre. I drive by her HQ daily here in Newtown. Mad respect to SHP.

Hope22

(3,789 posts)
6. Kudos to the caller and the young people who set up this hotline.
Fri Feb 14, 2025, 08:39 PM
Feb 14

Great job! Changed the lives of countless families and community right there! Thank you time a million!💗💗💗💗

MadameButterfly

(2,708 posts)
7. I hope going forward we'll have an FBI able and willing
Fri Feb 14, 2025, 09:15 PM
Feb 14

to follow up leads like this quickly and effectively.

Dock_Yard

(190 posts)
9. Hah!! Not till 2029 at the soonest.
Fri Feb 14, 2025, 09:28 PM
Feb 14

And we damn well better be able to choose a non-criminal, non-fascist president and administration in 2028...

MadameButterfly

(2,708 posts)
10. I do wonder if they'll do any real
Fri Feb 14, 2025, 11:15 PM
Feb 14

FBI business these 4 years, and who will take advantage of it's incompetence

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