WEST PALM BEACH — Federal agents found a trove of messages about where and how to commit mass murder on the phone of a 15-year-old school shooter. Their tip to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office in April led deputies to the South Florida man who sent them.
“Thanks to the awareness and quick actions in Palm Beach County, an entire community has been spared the devastating trauma of a mass shooting,” said Nicole Hockley, whose 6-year-old son, Dylan Hockley, was killed at Sandy Hook Elementary in 2012.
Hockley, co-founder of the violence-prevention nonprofit Sandy Hook Promise, applauded the arrest of Damien Allen , a 22-year-old Acreage man who stockpiled weapons, impersonated deputies and shared graphic fantasies of violence online…