Crime & Safety

Police: Radnor Student Threatened Shooting, Bombing at School

"I'm homicidal, and I'm fine with that," the student allegedly wrote in a notebook discovered by school staff.

A Radnor High School senior who was fascinated by the Columbine massacre has been taken into custody after making threats toward “the school, its students and its faculty,” Radnor Police said Monday.

The threats were made by a female student, police said. No other identifying information was available Monday night.

The threats were written in a notebook, police said.

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“”I could be the first female shooter,” the student wrote, according to information Police Superintendent William Colarulo gave The Philadelphia Inquirer. “I’m homicidal, and I’m fine with that.”

Radnor Police said that school administrators contacted police after becoming concerned by the written statements.

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Police questioned the student and she was taken into custody Monday.

“At no time was any student or staff member in danger of harm,” Radnor Police said.

Colarulo told the Inquirer that the student had a fascination with the shooting massacre 15 years ago at Columbine High School in Colorado, when 12 students and one teacher were killed.

“I want to trap them, pick them off one by one,” the Inquirer quoted the girl’s writing. “Blow up the cafeteria, shoot everyone in classrooms.”

The girl will be charged with making terroristic threats, the Inquirer said.

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