A transgender high school student in Indiana is accused of planning to kill masses of students on Valentine’s Day – the anniversary of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida.
Trinity J Shockley, 18, is being held in the Morgan County jail in Martinsville, Indiana without bond. Shockley was charged Thursday in Morgan Superior Court 1 with the highest-level felony count of conspiracy to commit murder, and two low-level felony counts of intimidation with a threat to commit terrorism, according to court documents obtained by Fox News Digital.
Shockley identifies as a transgender man and often goes by Jamie or Dex.
The plot to conduct a mass shooting at Mooresville High School was foiled when the FBI in Indianapolis received a tip and contacted the Mooresville Metropolitan Police Department (MMPD) to assess the credibility. In a statement to Fox News Digital, FBI Indianapolis said that the agency “swiftly coordinated” with local officials to investigate
The tip stated that a person, later identified as Shockley, was planning a shooting and had access to an AR-15 rifle and had ordered a bulletproof vest. The tip noted that Shockley reportedly was infatuated with Nikolas Cruz, the man who conducted the shooting at Parkland High School in Florida which occurred on Valentine’s Day in 2018.
officials with the Morgan County Sheriff’s Department conducted a search at Shockley’s home.
At the home, according to court documents, Shockley had a “shrine” of recent mass school shooters.
The wall included Cruz, as well as Dylann Roof, the man who killed multiple people in a church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina, and Ethan Crumbley from the 2021 Oxford High School shooting. The documents said that Shockley also had a photo album of mass shooters, as well as buttons with their faces on it.
Law enforcement also reportedly seized a number of notebooks from Shockley’s room. In the recovered notebooks, Shockley identified as “Dex… a transgender male [who has] a lot of homicidal thoughts.
These thoughts never seem to stop, you may believe that I am some edgelord, but in reality, I am just a loser,” Shockley wrote in an entry dated Dec. 16, 2024. “I am grateful for my chance to live but in reality, I am scared of living. Is it the government you ask? No. It is this sad reality of living with piece(s) of s—… I hope whoever reads this takes acknowledgment and maybe use it for your massacre. :)”
In other entries from January, Shockley wrote about wanting to hurt others and said people need to be “killed” and “wiped away from humanity.
You all need to be burnt out, killed, wiped away from humanity,” he wrote. “Right now, I want to pull out a [sic] AR-15.”
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