Port Neches-Groves HS student arrested, charged after allegedly threatening Columbine style attack

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A Port Neches-Groves High School student allegedly attempted to recruit others to join him in a columbine style shooting at his school and mentioned shooting students in a hallway where they would be trapped.

Scott Eslinger, KBMT 7:50 PM. CDT April 19, 2017

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PORT NECHES - A Port Neches-Groves High Schoolstudent allegedly attempted to recruit others to join him in a columbine style shooting at his school and mentioned shooting students in a hallway where they would be trapped.

TristonBrantley Miller, 17, was arrested Wednesday afternoon at his relatives home and taken to the Jefferson County Correctional Center according to a release from the Port Neches Police Department.

Miller was arrested at about 1:25 p.m. Wednesday, the day before the alleged attack was to have taken place, by PortNechesofficersaccordingto therelease.

PortNechesPolice were notified on Thursday, April 13, 2017, of possible threats being made at PortNeches-GrovesHigh School the release said.

According to a probable cause affidavit obtained by 12Newsfour students witnessed Miller talking about shooting people at the school.

READ | Scroll down to read the PC Affidavit

He detailedwhich teachers he wanted to kill first as well as which students he wanted to kill according to the affidavit.

Miller also went into detail about shooting students in a certain hallway after lunch where they would be trapped the affidavit said.

The affidavit also said that Miller attempted to recruit others in the attack that he talked about carrying out on the April 20 anniversarydate of the Columbine high School shooting.

Miller also mentioned wanting to buy a gun about to another student a month ago according to the affidavit.

When police interviewed Miller he admitted to them that he had talked to other students about the Columbine shooting but deniedmaking any threats to anyone the affidavit said.

The Port Neches Police department told 12news that Miller was expelled from school before he was arrested this afternoon.

Miller is being held on a $100,000 bond according to the Jefferson County Sheriff"s Office.

The Columbine High School shooting happened on April 20, 1999, in Jefferson County, Colorado, when Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris shot 35 people killing 12 students and one teacher before killing themselves.

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Source: http://www.12newsnow.com/news/local/port-neches-groves-hs-student-arrested-charged-after-allegedly-threatening-columbine-style-attack/432523878

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Columbine Massacre remembered 17 years later; North Carolina high school offers shooting range at school

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SMITHFIELD, NC - It was 17 years ago on April 20, 1999 that two teens calmly walked into Columbine High School in Colorado and began an unthinkable rampage.

They opened fire on students and faculty and when the gunfire ended -- 12 students and one teacher were dead, another 23 were injured and the shooters had taken their own lives.

The "Columbine Massacre" is still ranked as one of the worst mass shootings in US history and remains one of the nation"s deadliest school shootings.

Now in the wake of that tragedy, a high school in North Carolina has taken the unusual step of opening a shooting range inside the school!

It"s true, but instead of bullets, the students shoot pellets.

The range has been developed to train ROTC students how to shoot, and they are armed with only pellet guns.

ROTC instructor Commander David Wegman of Smithfield-Selma High Schoolsaid before students are armed, "they have to sign a safety pledge, get permission from home and then finally demonstrate on the range that they know how to handle one of these air rifles safely."

"You have to have the trust in others that they are handling a weapon, and they are not going to harm you and you"re not going to harm them," student Timothy Jones declared.

But as we all reflect on Columbine"s somber anniversary, one can only wonder if arming students with any kind of weapon is really a good idea?

"The procedures that we have in place ensure that we do the same thing, the same way, every single time," Wegman insisted.

Some think it may be time for school administrators to go back to school-- and back to the drawing board.

Source: http://cw39.com/2016/04/20/columbine-massacre-remembered-17-years-later-north-carolina-high-school-offers-shooting-range-at-school/

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