Off the wire
• Lula da Silva accepts to be presidential candidate despite prison sentence  • Hollywood actor criticizes U.S. gov't for pulling out of Paris climate agreement  • Lula da Silva accepts to be presidential candidate despite prison sentence  • Hollywood actor criticizes U.S. gov't for pulling out of Paris climate agreement  • Lula da Silva accepts to be presidential candidate despite prison sentence  • Hollywood actor criticizes U.S. gov't for pulling out of Paris climate agreement  • Lula da Silva accepts to be presidential candidate despite prison sentence  • Hollywood actor criticizes U.S. gov't for pulling out of Paris climate agreement  • Lula da Silva accepts to be presidential candidate despite prison sentence  • Hollywood actor criticizes U.S. gov't for pulling out of Paris climate agreement  
You are here: 　

2nd LD: School shooting plot at Los Angeles high school thwarted: police

Xinhua,February 22, 2018 Adjust font size:

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- Los Angeles County sheriff's officials said Wednesday that deputies last Friday thwarted a student's plot to open fire at El Camino High School in Whittier, 30 kilometers east of the Los Angeles downtown, just two days after the fatal mass shooting occurred in Florida.

At a press conference held in headquarter of Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department (LASD), a large amount of weapons and ammunition that confiscated from home of the suspect were showed, including two AR-15 style assault rifles, two handguns and magazines able to hold more than 1,200 bullets.

Two brothers were in custody in this case, one is 28 years old and another is a student of El Camino High School, Sheriff Jim McDonnell said at the press conference. He did not disclosed name of the 17-year-old student since he is still a minor, but saying he was arrested on suspicion of making criminal threats.

McDonnell said the student's brother, an Army veteran Daniel Eriberto Barcenas, claimed ownership of the weapons, but the the weapons "were readily available" to the student.

Barcenas faced multiple charges, including possession of an assault weapon, import of a high-capacity magazine, failure to register a handgun and criminal storage of firearms, the sheriff said.

Marino Chavez, Security Officer of Norwalk La Mirada Unified School District, told reporters at the press conference that the student last Friday was upset by a request from a teacher to take off his headphone in class otherwise he would be prohibited to go to school next day then he made comment outside the classroom, threatening to open fire at campus.

Marino said the student told him later that he was just saying that without "real meaning." Enditem

 

Related News & Photos