Authorities in Texas responded to a call about
a suspicious student on a high school campus.
They responded to that call, searched the student's vehicle and
found that he did in fact have weapons.
And they potentially foiled another mass shooting in the state
of Texas just a day after a school was terrorized essentially
by a gunman who went into forth grade classroom shot and
killed 19 students and two teachers.
So here are the details, here's what we know so
far about this potentially foiled plot.
Brian Tyler Cohen writes on twitter that a student has been arrested
at Birkner High School in Richardson Texas.
There was an Ak 47 replica AR15 rifle inside his vehicle.
And so the police department released a statement on social media,
I believe on on Facebook and
they explained that someone had called them to report a suspicious person.
Let me go ahead and read this for
our podcast audience in case they are unable to read this.
So on May 25, 2022,
the Richardson Police Department received a phone call from a business and
that business reported that a male was holding what appeared to be a rifle.
The male was seen walking towards Birkner high School and
it turns out he is in fact a student.
So the authorities responded to that call and they went and
found the student, he did not have any weaponry on him.
However, they proceeded to search his vehicle and when they did search
his vehicle inside that vehicle, officers observed what appeared
to be an AK 47 style pistol and a replica AR15 style or bees rifle.
>> That's the gel thing we were talking about.
>> Yes, okay, so, all right, so
an AK 47 Style pistol and that replica orbs rifle.
So right now it appears that that AK47 was a real weapon and
the other was not a lethal weapon.
The juvenile suspect was arrested and charged with unlawful
carrying weapons in a weapon free school zone, a state jail felony.
No further information is being released due to the suspect's age.
So, it's really unclear if he was intending to shoot up the school.
I'm happy that the business reported him.
I'd like to learn more about what the business saw,
they say that they saw him carrying a rifle.
So I'm sure that was enough reason for them to call the authorities.
But yeah, I mean, we don't even know how old that student is and he's got an AK 47.
>> Yeah, maybe he got, or maybe he got it from a family member.
Maybe, America any random house is a pretty good chance of just having
an arsenal of military grade weaponry.
He could have just picked it up.
It's also possible that that one wasn't an actual lethal firearm.
We don't know.
The fact that they designated one as not being lethal and didn't say if
the other implies to me that it was, but it's a weird plan to bring both.
If you are planning on doing an actual shooting,
it is possible it was just intended to intimidate people.
It's possible that this is a kid who had a sick idea to just maybe thought it
was a joke or to scare people following this.
I mean God only knows what people think.
So it's impossible to say at this point if the plan was to actually
do an attack like we saw yesterday.
>> Maybe we'll learn more about this, but for now I'd rather not speculate about it
and just kind of give you the details that we do have.
But I do know one thing for sure parents throughout the country and certainly
parents in Texas are living in fear right now because of what's transpiring.
Like how do you feel comfortable dropping your kids off at school knowing that this
keeps happening over and over again.
>> Yeah, I mean I know look of my sister in law and
brother in law are teachers in Texas at high schools, that's what they teach.
I imagine they are terrified.
>> My God