3 NY middle school students charged in alleged planned cafeteria shooting
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Three upstate New York students arrested for alleged planned school shooting; One was accused of writing “no one will be spared” in an elaborate plan to bring the violence of Columbine and Sandy Hook to their own middle schools, according to police.
Accordingly syracuse.com, One in three students wrote that a planned school shooting would cause pain for bullies, citing a recently released police affidavit.
“Everyone and their poor little lives [sic] one of the students allegedly wrote: “I want to be remembered in the worst, most disturbing way possible.”
Authorities arrested three teenagers, a 13-year-old boy, a 13-year-old girl and a 14-year-old girl, following a fast-moving investigation this weekend, according to the Oneida County Sheriff’s Office.
TWO STUDENTS, AGED 10 AND 11, WERE ARRESTED IN FLORIDA FOR ALLEGED HIT THREATS: ‘DISCIPLINE YOUR CHILDREN’
Oneida County Sheriff Robert Maciol at the podium, flanked by Oneida County Executive Anthony Picente Jr. to Maciol’s left, Clinton Superintendent Christopher Clancy to Maciol’s right, and other law enforcement officials speak at a news conference at the Oneida County Sheriff’s Office in Oriskany on April 13, 2026, about a thwarted shooting plot at Clinton Middle School. (AMY NEFF ROTH / OBSERVER-DISPATCH / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)
Authorities were called to Clinton Middle School on April 11 after learning that three students were planning to carry out a mock attack in the school’s cafeteria on Friday, April 17, the department said in a statement.
Oneida County Sheriff Robert Maciol said both girls were charged with aggravated threat of mass harm. They were referred to the district probation office.
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Maciol said deputies went to another home and seized several firearms. There, a 13-year-old boy was charged with second-degree conspiracy, a felony, he said. He was released to a guardianship with an appearance ticket to return to the county probation department.
Based on the statement, local media reported that 11 rifles and ammunition were seized from a safe in the child’s mother’s house in Kirkland, New York.
Deputies also interviewed a fourth juvenile who was determined not to be a suspect, Maciol said.
The exterior of Clinton Middle School in New York. According to police, three middle school students were planning to carry out a shooting in the school cafeteria on April 17. (Google Maps)
Her mother and another student told police that one of the girls arrested was recently obsessed with the 1999 school shooting in Columbine, Colorado, Syracuse.com reported.
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In the Columbine High School massacre on April 20, 1999, 13 students and one teacher lost their lives.
The girl also reportedly wrote messages and notes about Adam Lanza, who killed 20 children and six staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut in 2012.
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He said another student showed police a SnapChat group chat created by the suspects titled “The Cal Gabriel Fan Club” about planning a school shooting, named after the fictional main character in the 2002 movie “Zero Day.”
His recent web searches also included guns and notorious school shooters, documents show, according to Syracuse.com.
Columbine High School survivors embrace; A man carries a young boy outside after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. (H. Darr Beiser-USA TODAY NETWORK | AP Photo)
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Police asked anyone with additional information regarding this investigation to contact the Oneida County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigation Division. 315-765-2226.
Fox News Digital has reached out to Clinton Central School District for comment.
