Current Events > 19-Year-Old Caught Planning Multiple Mass Shootings

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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. Police officers pulled over a 19-year-old recent graduate from Okeechobee High School because the headlight on his truck was out. Then they found handwritten pages detailing plans to kill everyone at his high school.

Henry Horton IV, of Okeechobee, was arrested Thursday by Palm Beach County Sheriffs detectives after they uncovered his plans for mass killings at multiple locations, according to a probable cause affidavit, discovering that he had done recon at two targets in Parkland, including Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

Asked why he would attack Stoneman Douglas, the site of a school massacre that killed 17 and injured 17 in 2018, the affidavit says, Horton replied, for attention or fame.

Horton is now charged with written threats to kill or do harm. He was being held Friday in the Palm Beach County jail on $1 million bond, court records show. Should he be released, he will be placed on house arrest with a monitor.

The investigation into Horton began the night of Sept. 19, when Jupiter police officers pulled him over because of the passengers side headlight was out on his pickup truck.

Officers asked if he would consent to a search, which he did, the affidavit says.

Officers found handwritten papers with plans to purchase guns and then kill everyone at OHS with them, a bong with burnt residue, and three filet knives, according to the affidavit.

Agreeing to speak to the officers without a lawyer, Horton detailed his plans to kill 15 people at his former high school, Okeechobee High, on his 22nd birthday in 2026, including an administrator, then to go on a stabbing spree at a Miami church, according to the affidavit. He said he wanted to be killed by police afterward.

Horton told the officers that he was having several thoughts about mass killings, and that he had admitted himself into a medical facility in Virginia for a mental health evaluation for similar thoughts.

The officers took Horton into custody under Floridas Baker Act, a provision of Florida law allowing people to be held at a designated institution for up to 72 hours if they are believed to pose a threat to themselves or someone else. He was taken to JFK North Hospital in West Palm Beach for a mental health evaluation.

At the facility, he told a PBSO detective that he had been driving in Palm Beach County when he was stopped because he was on his way to the El Rey church in Miami to do recon for the attack he was planning there.

When the detective asked him why, he said he wanted to do something violent because his stepmother had kicked him out of the house. He had written a manifesto, which was in his truck when he was stopped.

Asked if he had done recon anywhere else, Horton told the detective that he had gone to a church in Parkland near Stoneman Douglas High a few weeks ago, according to the affidavit. His truck was spotted in the area on Sept. 11, the affidavit says.

A few weeks before that, he admitted, he had gone to the Parkland high school itself for recon, watching people outside on a school day and thinking hmm, interesting.

The detective searched his phone, finding notes detailing different mass killing plans and Google searches of how much is an AK47. In messages with a friend, Horton also revealed plans to kill his stepmother.

She kicked me out for telling her my honest thoughts, he wrote. Now I suffer in Florida in the middle of nowhere.

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More sane people need to leave that hellhole ASAP.

Why would the cop ask to search his car because he had a headlight out.

All this from a headlight. It wasnt any other warning sign, even when he admitted himself to a facility in VA for similar thoughts there was no red flag raised. It all came down to a headlight. Crazy.

Humble_Novice posted...

Asked why he would attack Stoneman Douglas, the site of a school massacre that killed 17 and injured 17 in 2018, the affidavit says, Horton replied, for attention or fame.

Fuck man.

Couldn't he just wave a Nazi flag around or some shit? Why did he have to decide on murder?

Then again, agreeing to be searched when you have hand written notes in the car and agreeing to speak to police officers without a lawyer... not exactly a bright bulb.

Glad he was stopped before he could hurt someone.

well, at least he was dumb enough to consent to his truck being searched for a broken headlight

Florida is CURSED BY GOD

I wonder if they knew about this guys previous behaviors and needed the broken headlight as reason to pull him over and ask a few crucial questions to get him to act suspiciously so they could have reason to search the vehicle. One affidavit said hed been sighted before during one of his adventures.

Why is it always some late teen-early 20s white boy that wants to murder people for attention? Keep these assholes off the internet.

Sad that all the sane people won't leave that gods forsaken state.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IDwpTABJG4

It is always some pathetic loser planning these and never a well adjusted person

Can't wait for his social media to turn out to be loaded with right wing claptrap and red flags galore while repubs bray "mental health problem" while simultaneously not passing any mental health bills

Literal neckbeard.

LeoRavus posted...

Why would the cop ask to search his car because he had a headlight out.

Asking the important questions....

obviously sarcasm here

LeoRavus posted...

Why would the cop ask to search his car because he had a headlight out.

They usually do that if they have reason to suspect drug use, drinking and driving or just have a weird feeling.