Timeline of a Nearly Executed Nightmare
According to court documents, school authorities first contacted the child in January over disturbing drawings that depicted a labeled map of Rhodes Middle School with a “suicide route” and a rifle sketch.
The boy openly admitted a “fascination with past mass shooters,” and by April, things escalated dramatically. He was caught researching the 2019 Christchurch mosque massacre — a white supremacist terror attack in New Zealand that left 51 dead — on a school-issued laptop. The same day, he reportedly attempted suicide using a straight razor, requiring over 100 stitches.
Still, the warning signs continued to mount.
After a brief stint at an alternative school, the boy returned to Rhodes Middle School on May 7 — but by May 13, his grandmother contacted police after she caught him hitting a live bullet with a hammer.
According to the affidavit, the boy told her, “I got it from Mom.”
That chilling moment prompted the grandmother to search the boy’s bedroom, where she discovered:
