Accused School Plotter Allegedly Wrote of Being ‘1st Female School Shooter’
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iStock/Thinkstock(PHILADELPHIA) — A 17-year-old Pennsylvania girl who allegedly wrote a letter to the parents of Columbine shooter Dylan Klebold has been taken into custody on charges of making terroristic threats against her school, police told ABC News.
The 17-year-old senior at Radnor High School outside Philadelphia is undergoing a psychological evaluation, according to Radnor Township Superintendent of Police Bill Colarulo.
“I could be the first female school shooter,” the girl allegedly wrote in a journal, according to ABC News station WPVI in Philadelphia. “I’d want to trap them pick them off one by one.”
She was not being prosecuted as an adult, and Colarulo said it was unclear whether she would have actually carried out an attack. Nevertheless, he said, authorities must take every threat seriously, and her personal journals and other writings raised concerns.
“It was kind of frightening because those events have happened in other places, and you don’t want it to happen in your hometown,” Radnor High School senior Alex Bowden told WPVI. “But realistically, it can happen to anybody.”
In a letter to the parents of Dylan Klebold, who along with Eric Harris killed 12 fellow students and a teacher 15 years ago, the 17-year-old girl allegedly said she “recently began studying the tragedy” and “connected very strongly” with Klebold.
In particular, she allegedly wrote that she saw in his journals “many phrases that have appeared in my own journals,” including themes of love and loneliness. And she suggested that if they could have been friends or even lovers, perhaps the Columbine tragedy never would have happened.
The letter was undated and it was unclear if she ever mailed it, Colarulo told ABC News.
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