Two middle school students charged with conspiracy to commit murder after allegedly plotting a school shooting

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While no hit list or weapons were discovered when authorities searched the homes of the two students, conversations between the two sixth-graders were discovered where they worked to prepare their plan, police said.

Two sixth-graders in Tennessee have been charged with conspiracy to commit murder after a school resource officer learned of a rumored plot where the students allegedly planned to carry out a shooting at their elementary school in Crossville.

Upon learning of the threat,"immediate steps were taken" to guarantee the safety of students, via a recently formed threat-assessment task force. While no hit list or weapons were found when authorities searched the students' homes. However, conversations between the two sixth-graders where they worked to prepare their plan were discovered. The search also led investigators to a hand-drawn map of South Cumberland Elementary and details of the plot the two students had crafted, police said.

The students also planned to kill themselves before law enforcement could apprehend them, the joint statement said.

 

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