Glendale police say a 14-year-old student was detained on Tuesday after a staff member alerted an Independence High School resource officer about a possible shooting threat.
Police say the staff member reported the student had been researching mass shootings, including the 2019 Walmart shooting in El Paso, Texas and the Uvalde school shooting in 2022.
“He was specific when it came to explaining which school shootings or which mass shootings he researched,” a Glendale police spokesperson said. “The Uvalde school shooting was one of them, as well as the El Paso Walmart shooting.”…