Man with elaborate plan for Haltom High School shooting guilty of terror threat

A man who when he was 18 wrote online that he wanted to kill himself and shoot others at Haltom High School has been found guilty at trial of terroristic threat and on Tuesday was in effect sentenced to serve 10 years of probation.

A law enforcement examination of Ephraim Miala’s phone yielded a detailed manifesto that included an elaborate plan to conduct a shooting at Haltom High in Haltom City before moving to a nearby middle school to continue the shooting, a Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney’s Office prosecutor wrote in a motion on bond in the case.

Miala described in writing his efforts to try to purchase an AR-15 rifle in order to complete his “project,” according to the district attorney’s office…

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