Police: High School Girl Planned School Shooting, Bombing

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On Thursday, March 23, 2017, Catoctin High School officials were notified by a concerned parent of the potential threat of violence towards the school.

Administrators immediately contacted the Frederick County Sheriff’s Office and an investigation was initiated.

The student, an 18 year old female and Thurmont resident identified as Nichole Cevario, was immediately removed from the classroom and turned over to investigators. Preliminary investigation revealed clearly that Ms. Cevario posed a threat not only to the school, but to herself. She was transported from the school to Frederick Memorial Hospital for an emergency evaluation and currently remains hospitalized.

IT WAS ABUNDANTLY CLEAR TO INVESTIGATORS VERY EARLY ON IN THE INVESTIGATION THAT THE IDENTIFICATION AND QUICK CONTAINMENT OF MS. CEVARIO ELIMINATED ANY THREAT TO THE SCHOOL AND THE COMMUNITY. THE INVESTIGATION REVEALED THAT AT NO TIME WAS THERE EVER A WEAPON OR EXPLOSIVE DEVICE BROUGHT ON TO SCHOOL PROPERTY. ADDITIONALLY THE INVESTIGATION IS CLEAR THAT WHILE EXPLOSIVE MATERIALS WERE LOCATED DURING THE INVESTIGATION THEY HAD NOT BEEN COMBINED IN ANY FORM THAT ACTUALLY CREATED AN EXPLOSIVE DEVICE.

Detectives from the Sheriff’s Office have been aggressively investigating this incident for the past several days to determine its extent and if there were any other individuals involved with Ms. Cevario. The investigation to this point has revealed that this was a plot solely conceived by Ms. Cevario and there are no other individuals that assisted her in the planning and/or the execution of this plot. Additionally, at this point in the investigation, we are confident that Ms. Cevario was the only one that knew of the impending incident that was averted as a result of this investigation. The investigation to this point has been focused on the search of Ms. Cevario’s residence and the recovery of evidence, scrutiny of her journal, interviews with her known associates, family members, and friends. Ms. Cevario’s journal clearly spelled out a detailed shooting event that she planned to execute on a specific date in April at Catoctin High School. Evidence recovered from her home revealed that she was actively acquiring materials needed to execute the plot. Those items included a shotgun with ammunition, bomb making materials to include pipes with end caps, shrapnel, fireworks, magnesium tape, and fuse material. Ms. Cevario’s journal revealed that she had been planning this event for some time and had been compiling intelligence on behavior activities of the school, noting emergency procedures associated with drills conducted by school staff and obtaining intelligence on the School Resource Deputy assigned to the school. The journal was very detailed including a timeline that revealed how she was going to execute the plot and her expectations at each stage of the event.

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