A 16-year-old scholar was arrested with a gun present in his backpack simply two hours after he threatened on social media to shoot up his Queens highschool, Mayor Adams introduced Thursday.
The arrest — which happened after the Federal Bureau of Investigation alerted the NYPD in regards to the scholar’s disturbing social media publish — was touted by officers for example of expertise and legislation enforcement working collectively.
“Our heroic officers did an excellent job of immediately responding to the scene, working with the school staff and school safety agents to investigate the tip, find the student and recover the gun,” Adams mentioned at a press convention. “We’re so grateful that this incident did not end tragically, I don’t want to imagine the world where we would be making a different announcement right now.”
Mayor Adams and Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch attend a press convention at police headquarters in Manhattan, New York Metropolis on Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025. (Gardiner Anderson / New York Every day Information)
The coed, a tenth grader at Benjamin N. Cardozo Excessive College in Bayside, posted on Instagram at 10:17 a.m. an image of what regarded like a faculty worksheet with the caption “Ts Gmt boutta shoot the school up” — utilizing an acronym Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch mentioned means, “this s**t gets me tight.”
A social media publish by the coed. (NYPD)
The FBI’s Nationwide Risk Operation Middle swiftly detected the publish and alerted the NYPD, together with the social media account holder’s username, telephone quantity, date of start and the placement the place they posted from — which was traced to the college campus. Lower than quarter-hour later, officers from the 111st Precinct responded to the college, the place the coed was faraway from class with out incident.
When authorities searched the coed’s backpack, they discovered a black, 9-millimeter Taurus GX4 semiautomatic handgun, Tisch mentioned.
“As a mother of two young school-aged boys, I am shaken,” Tisch mentioned on the press convention. “However as your police commissioner, I’m resolute in guaranteeing that the NYPD does every little thing in our energy to maintain our youngsters protected.
“While this incident is terrifying, it is an example of the law enforcement apparatus at the federal and local levels doing everything right. It is literally the system, our protocols, our training and our processes working just as they should,” Tisch mentioned.
The gun was loaded with 13 rounds of bullets, Tisch mentioned.
The coed— whose id was not launched as a result of he’s a minor — doesn’t have a felony report. He was arrested by police at 12:36 p.m. — roughly two hours after making the threatening publish.
