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Fifth-Grader, 10, Arrested for Threatening a Mass Shooting in Text Messages

‘SICKENING BEHAVIOR’

The 10-year-old boy was detained Saturday and charged with making a written threat to conduct a mass shooting.

Dan Ladden-Hall
Dan Ladden-Hall 

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Dan Ladden-Hall

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