A teen has been arrested in Indiana after allegedly planning to carry out a mass shooting on Valentine's Day.
Trinity Shockley, 18, was taken into custody on charges of conspiracy to commit murder, intimidation, and conspiracy to commit intimidation, per ABC News.
She is being held without bond at the Morgan County Jail in Martinsville, Indiana.
According to court documents, the FBI’s Sandy Hook Promise Say Something Anonymous Reporting System received a tip from a friend of Shockley, who alleged that she had access to an AR-15 rifle and had recently purchased a bulletproof vest.
The tipster claimed that Shockley was obsessed with Nikolas Cruz, the gunman responsible for the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, which left 17 people dead.
The court filing revealed that Shockley, who identified as transgender and went by the name "Jamie", sent alarming Snapchat messages referencing the Parkland shooting.
"I've been planning this for a YEAR," she reportedly wrote in one of the messages.
Authorities said Shockley sought mental health counseling at Mooresville High School on Tuesday, where she disclosed an intense fixation on Cruz.
According to court documents, she told the counselor she was sexually attracted to him and had "already named the children" she planned to have with him.
Investigators said she also possessed a heart locket with Cruz’s photo inside and had written to him multiple times.
During a search of the apartment Shockley shared with her father, police discovered disturbing materials in her bedroom, including photos of Cruz, Dylann Roof - who killed nine people at a South Carolina church in 2015 - and Andrew Blaze, who murdered three people in a Pennsylvania grocery store in 2017.
Officials reported that Shockley’s backpack was decorated with buttons featuring images of the killers, and similar images were set as the wallpaper on her laptop.
A poster for Zero Day, a 2003 film depicting a school shooting, was also displayed in her room. Court records indicate that her notebooks contained swastikas and phrases such as "kill", "bang", and "I hate you all DIE DIE DIE."
Investigators noted that Shockley had received mental health counseling since her freshman year and had expressed suicidal thoughts.
However, Mooresville Police Detective Matthew McDaniel stated in court records that the school had determined "nothing was significant enough to cause intervention."
The school district released a statement confirming that Shockley "will not return to the school."
McDaniel also cited information from the school suggesting that Shockley’s father, Tim Shockley, prevented her from accessing mental health treatment.
"It was [the school's] understanding that Mr. Shockley did not believe in mental health treatment and did not take his daughter's conditions seriously," McDaniel wrote in the probable cause filing.
Upon turning 18 in November, Shockley reportedly sought treatment independently.
Shockley told investigators that she had been bullied at school, an issue exacerbated after she was struck by a drunk driver in 2022 while waiting for the school bus.
According to local media reports, she suffered multiple injuries, including a fractured femur, fractured arm, sprained ACL, two brain contusions, and a web compression fracture.
Following the incident, the school community raised more than $12,000 to support her recovery.
During questioning, Shockley claimed she was "joking" about her plans and insisted she did not have access to a firearm.
However, police discovered AR-15 magazines, ammunition, and a soft armor vest in her home. Her social media activity included posts praising Cruz and Roof, as well as threats to carry out a school shooting+
