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Officials in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, say it was another school massacre
in the making. A foreign exchange student is under arrest for allegedly
threatening to attack his high school.
Police say the 18-year-old exchange student An Tso Sun was reported for
making a threat.
"He told a fellow student, 'Don't come to school on May 1 because I'm going
to shoot up the school,' and then he said, 'I'm kidding,'" said police
superintendent Michael Chitwood.
But when police searched the home of his host family, they found ammunition,
a ballistic vest, a high-powered crossbow with arrows and a container used
to load clips -- all of which Sun could have purchased online. Police say he
also asked that fellow student how to buy a gun.
Chitwood says the student came from Taiwan on a 5-year student visa last
July. CBS News spoke with Sun's host mother, Valerie Hibbert, who said she
had no comment because she considers him her son.
According to the Educator's School Safety Network, a group that tracks
school safety, there have been nearly 1,400 "school-based incidents and
threats" made, many through social media, since the Marjory Stoneman Douglas
High School shooting in Florida. Of 83 total incidents, a gun was found in
40 cases and 12 were classified as "thwarted plots."
But in Wednesday's case in Pennsylvania, the boy's attorney, Enrique
Latoison, says it's all a misunderstanding.
Latoison says Sun wanted to be a police officer and had used some of the
items found in his home as a Halloween costume. If he is convicted of the
misdemeanor charge, he could face up to five years in prison. |
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