School massacre foiled: Armed teen caught with ‘hit list’

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 11 May 2017

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

A tip from Canadian police helped North Carolina cops stop a teen just minutes before investigators believe he was about to go on a stabbing rampage at his high school. A big knives and a “hit list” were found in his backpack. Nancy Grace talks with psychologist Caryn Stark and reporter Joe Marusak about the thwarted massacre in this episode.

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0:00.0	Police in North Carolina say this high school was supposed to be the site of a massacre.
0:10.8	A teen is arrested just moments before he allegedly planned to carry out an attack
0:15.0	at his high school in Union County, New Charlotte.
0:17.4	To bring in knives, flammable liquid, and a hit list with up to a dozen names on it to
0:22.5	school.
0:23.5	But investigators say the boy posted in an online chat room about plans to stab several
0:28.4	students at his school.
0:29.9	They say they were tipped off to the planned attack by authorities in Canada.
0:34.4	This is crime stories with Nancy Grace.
0:37.4	The student whose name has not been released because he's younger than 16 was not a troublemaker.
0:42.9	We spoke to him in his very calm.
0:44.9	A 30 say the plot was foiled with minutes to spare.
0:48.3	The sheriff said today he is now getting some counseling help.
0:51.8	It's a trouble.
0:53.7	To know that your kids can come to school and not be safe.
0:58.3	I remember Columbine.
1:00.7	I remember Dylan Klebold.
1:04.4	And I remember all of the copycats that followed.
1:08.8	I remember the violence in our school systems.
1:14.0	When I was a prosecutor for 10 years in Intercity, Atlanta, I would go to public schools
1:20.3	to find defendants, felony defendants, witnesses to felonies.
1:26.7	It was not a good thing to be walking up and down the halls of a middle school looking
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