Report: 2 girls face terrorism charges for alleged hit list
BERKLEY, Mich. - Police say two middle school students who created a "hit list" of classmates and school staff may have been inspired by the 1999 Columbine High School massacre in Colorado, reports the Detroit News.
The 13- and 14-year-old girls are being held without bail at a youth detention facility without bail ahead of a June 8 pretrial hearing, according to court documents obtained by the newspaper. The Berkley, Mich., students are charged with threatening to commit an act of terrorism and making a false report to another person. They are being tried as juveniles.
If convicted, the girls could be held at a juvenile detention center until their 19th birthdays, reports CBS Detroit.
The suspects have been in custody since May 22, when officials at Anderson Middle School caught wind of their alleged plan. According to school officials, another student brought one of the girls' notebooks to the principal's office. It allegedly included "some very troubling information," including a list of students and staff that the student was upset with.
Both students told police they were only "joking around," but documents obtained by the newspaper show that the notebook indicated the girls planned to pull off their caper "in the near future."
"... The plan detailed a map of the gym, awaiting for the students to be at an assembly and also bringing in small guns in backpacks while trying to overtake the office and staff, and then taking out the people who have wronged them," according to the report.