Safe Havens International
A chilling plot of a 17-year old high school student to kill his family and then attack his school was revealed May 1, 2014. A concerned citizen noticed a "suspicious" person lurking at a storage facility and called the police.
A police officer responded and found bomb-making materials in the storage facility. He arrested the teen. The subsequent investigation uncovered horrifying details of what the teen hoped to accomplish.
The teen had a 180-page notebook with intricate details of what he was going to do, beginning with the murder of his family. He was then going to set a fire in a field to distract first responders, and assault his school. He was going to set off pressure-cooker bombs in the cafeteria, then use Molotov cocktails and guns to kill as many students as he could before SWAT took him out.
The investigation began in late March when three explosive devices were found on an elementary school playground, and culminated with the call from a concerned citizen.
In Staying Alive, we address the issue of the concerned citizen. People often do not call the police for fear of being wrong, but law enforcement would rather look into a suspicious person or incident than to respond to a mass casualty incident at a school.
"See something, say something" is a mindset that can help people to "Stay Alive".
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