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Mooresville, Ind. (Wishes) -A 18-year-old student with a fascination for the perpetrator of a Valentine’s Day High School shooting in 2018 in Florida was arrested on Thursday after planning a mass shooting for Friday at Moorsville High School, police said.

Trinity J Shockley was held in Morgan County Prison in Martinsville without bond. On Thursday, she was charged in Morgan Superior Court 1 for the highest level crime of conspiracy to commit murders and two low -level crimes with threats with a threat of committing terrorism, according to online court registers.

Online Court Registrations say FBI warned Morgan County Sheriff’s Office on a threat tip on Tuesday, and Sheriff’s Office shared this information with Mooresville Metropolitan Police Department.

Detective Matthew McDaniel of Mooresville Police wrote in the probable causal document filed for court that the FBI Tipster said a friend planned a shooting on February 14: “Tipster declared that the offender declared that he will kill his best friend ( edited) first. “

Detective interviewed Shockley on Wednesday. He learned that she had been planning the shooting for at least a year.

Detective wrote that Shockley was an admirer of Nikolas Cruz. He was the mass shooter in February 14, 2018, Parkland High School shooting in Florida.

Detective wrote in court documents, ”Trinity’s motivation to make the plan is Cruz. She wanted to prove that she is his leading fan. Trinity has an emotional attachment to Cruz. Her message behind the plan is that she doesn’t like people who think they’re better than everyone else and people have to appreciate their everyday lives. You never know and you could die at any minute. Trinity could see herself in court after executing her plan, but she didn’t like it. When she saw all police officers, it hit her that she didn’t want this. She will not be escorted into a police car after doing so. Trinity did not want to go to court and listen to all those things. “

The Tipster also told the FBI that the vein had just ordered a bulletproof vest and had access to an AR-15. The semi-automatic Colt-style rifle is often used for hunting, target shooting and home defense.

Mooresville School Police executed on Wednesday search options about Shockley’s home and took her into custody, according to a news message from Mooresville Police Chief Kerry A. Buckner.

Investigators found an AR-15 rifle in the closet of Shockley’s father.

In the bedroom of her home, investigators found a collage of mass murderers, including Cruz. Collagen also had pictures of Dylann Roof and Randy Stair.

Tag, a white supremacist and neo -Nazi, murdered nine people on June 17, 2015 in a church in South Carolina.

Stair, the so-called “YouTube Killer”, who used moniker Andrew Blaze on the Video Social Media site, killed three employees on June 8, 2017 before committing suicide in a supermarket in Pennsylvania.

Shockley was a senior school -months from the exam, and told the detective that she is holding a “close circle of friends” in high school. She had just started a job in a sandwich shop. She hopes to go to Ivy Tech Community College and study criminology.

At the age of 15, a suspected drunk driver in September 2022, hit Shockley as she boarded a bus to high school, Mooresville Police Chief told News 8 on Thursday afternoon. The driver, Michael Simpson, 35, committed suicide about a year later, and before the criminal charges against him were resolved.

The detective said Shockley expressed guilty of Simpson’s suicide that it was her fault that he took his life.

Detectives also learned that Shockley had sought mental health resources from the school district, but Shockley’s father denied this request. A school officer told investigators that Shockley’s father “did not believe in mental health care” and did not take his daughter’s requests seriously.

News 8 has reached Mooresville School’s superintendent Jake Allen, but did not hear back immediately.

This story was updated to correct information about the rifle.

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