12 Year Old Student Planned School Shooting

Poway Student Planned School Shooting: Deputies

SDSU lecturer Nora Benhana talks to NBC 7 anchors Mark Mullen and Catherine Garcia about ways to talk to children about the school shooting in Connecticut. A Poway student sent a threatening email over the weekend to a Twin Peaks Middle School administrator stating he planned to shoot a teacher and her 23 students at the school on Monday morning. Detectives from the San Diego County Sheriff's Department investigated the alleged threat and found numerous rifles and handguns in the 12-year-old student's home. Detectives believe the boy planned to act alone and say there is no evidence to suggest anyone else was involved in making the threats.

Student Arrested After Allegedly Threatening Mass Shooting at Twin Peaks Middle School in Poway

On Saturday, deputies from the Poway Sheriffs Station learned about an email threat that had been sent to an administrator at the Twin Peaks Middle School the night before. The threat indicated that on Monday, February 11, 2013, 23 students and a Twin Peaks Middle School teacher would be shot. Detectives identified a 12 year old student at Twin Peaks Middle School as a possible suspect. On February 9, 2013, at approximately 5:30 P.M., detectives served a search warrant at the student's residence.

Student at Twin Peaks Middle School in custody, suspected of threatening school shooting

 A student at Twin Peaks Middle School in Poway is in custody, suspected of threatening a mass shooting at the school. According to the San Diego County Sheriffs Department, on Friday morning, deputies from the Poway sheriffs station learned about an email threat that had been sent to an administrator at Twin Peaks Middle School the night before. The threat indicated that on Monday, Feb. 11, 23 students and a Twin Peaks Middle School teacher would be shot. Detectives identified a 12-year-old student who attends Twin Peaks Middle School as a possible suspect.