LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- An Indiana student is facing charges for allegedly planning a mass shooting at a high school on Valentine's Day.
According to Fox 59, Trinity Shockley, 18, was arraigned Friday for conspiracy to commit murder. The Morgan County Sheriff's Office said the target was Mooresville High School, which is southwest of Indianapolis.
Investigators said a tip on Tuesday led them to Shockley. She reportedly sent messages to people on social media saying she had been planning a shooting for a year and shared photos of 10 AR-15 magazines. Police believe she had an infatuation with school shooters including 2018 Parkland High School shooter Nikolas Cruz.
Mooresville Police Chief Kerry Buckner said, "The pictures in her room they look like family photographs like you would put of your kids but they were all people who had committed mass shootings. She had buttons on her backpack with the faces of mass shootings on them."
Investigators said they also found notebooks where Shockley wrote that she wanted to hurt others.
Mooresville High School student Hadley Miller said the arrest was concerning. "I haven't read all of the details but hearing all of what she said is pretty crazy. It freaked me out a lot. I feel safer now that she's not here. But then again the threat of someone else doing it or someone who has the same ideas. That's always a threat going to school."
According to court documents, Shockley will be held without bond at the Morgan County Jail until a bond hearing. She is scheduled back in court in May.
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