19-year-old Henry Horton IV was arrested by the police.
A 19-year-old man in america was arrested after the police discovered written threats for a “taking pictures spree” and different assaults at his former college and completely different areas throughout a routine site visitors cease, as per a report in CNN. The person from South Florida deliberate to “kill everybody” at Okeechobee Excessive College together with his weapons on January 2, 2026, which occurs to be his twenty second birthday.
Henry Horton IV was stopped by the cops on September 18 for a damaged headlight on the white pickup truck he was driving. Throughout a search of Horton’s automobile, the officer found many handwritten notes detailing a plot to purchase handguns and “kill everybody at OHS (Okeechobee Excessive College) with my weapons,” in keeping with the affidavit from the Palm Seashore County Sheriff’s Workplace. It’s to be famous that the 19-year-old graduated from highschool in Might 2022. He had deliberate to kill 15 folks together with an administrator on the college.
An examination of his telephone revealed specifics for a lot of state mass homicide plots, plans to make a bomb, and intentions to homicide his stepmother. In accordance with the affidavit, Horton had admitted to having psychological well being points previously and had “been having a number of ideas about mass murder and wish(ing) to execute them as soon as he turned 22 years previous.”
Earlier than he was stopped, authorities questioned him the place he was going. As per the affidavit, Horton said he was travelling to Miami to take a look at a church, the place he needed to homicide roughly ten folks after his deliberate 2026 assault at his former college.
Additional, he was despatched to “a hospital to obtain a psychological well being analysis below the Florida Psychological Well being Act”, as per the outlet. On September 29, Horton revealed to investigators that he composed a manifesto and made threats to kill his stepmother. He was arrested and charged with intimidation with written threats to homicide or harm one other individual.
As per New York Post, his mom Marcie Horton mentioned that her son was “a ‘good child’ and would by no means have truly carried out the plan.” She additionally urged officers to assist him search the required psychological well being remedy. Stepmother Alisha Horton additionally said that he would by no means “harm” her. “Henry is not going to harm me. He would by no means. He must be handled for a psychological incapacity as an alternative of as a felony,” she mentioned.
