U.S. student arrested over shooting threat

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Police arrested Sammy Chavez, 18, in the early morning at a residence in west Bartlesville, Oklahoma, on an arrest warrant for threats to kill, according to local TV channel FOX23.

Bartlesville police said officials from Bartlesville High School reported that a student talked about "planning a shooting at the school" on Thursday morning.

Officers began an immediate¹ search for the suspect, who was not at school on Thursday, and located him at a residence in Bartlesville early Friday morning, according to the report.

According to court documents, the suspect tried to recruit other students to assist him in a plot to lure² other students into the school auditorium³, shut the doors and shoot them.

Student witnesses also reported that the teenager claimed he would place bombs by the school doors.

Police believed he was trying to obtain a map or blueprint⁴ of the school. He reportedly told a teacher that he had recently purchased a gun and would use it to shoot over the weekend.

"We are extremely pleased that our students were never in harm's way," said school superintendent⁵ Gary W. Quinn.

Bartlesville police said the incident is still under investigation⁶ and they currently have no further details.

The arrest came on the same day when an elementary school shooting left 20 children and 8 adults dead in the U.S. state of Connecticut, the second deadliest in U.S. history only next to the Virginia Tech Massacre⁷ in April 2007, which claimed 33 lives.

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