Teen girl busted ‘planning Parkland part two mass shooting on Valentine’s Day’

An 18-year-old girl allegedly plotted to carry out a mass shooting at her school on Valentine’s Day.

Trinity Shockley was arrested on Thursday after cops received a tip on Tuesday evening about a shooting planned at Mooresville High School in Indiana.

The plot involved using an AR-15 rifle and buying a bulletproof vest, stated a probable cause affidavit obtained by WBIW.

Shockley is accused of planning the massacre for more than a year and calling it ‘Parkland Part Two’, referring to the mass shooting carried out by 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida which killed 17 people.

Police who got a search warrant for Shockley’s home found an AR-15 rifle, a soft armor vest, a few notebooks and a collage of mass shooters including Cruz, 2015 Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof and 2017 Pennsylvania supermarket shooter Randy Stair.

They also found a poster in her bedroom illustration an imagined school shooting.

Shockley described herself as a ‘transgender male (who has) a lot of homicidal thoughts’ in one of the notebooks, stated the affidavit.

She claimed to cops that she was merely joking about the massacre and made remarks around it when she was angry and needed help. Shockley also said she did not have access to a firearm.

Earlier on the day she was arrested, Shockley met with a counselor on campus and confessed to being ‘sexually attracted’ to Cruz, having a heart-shaped locket with his photo, and writing to him several times, per the affidavit.

Her alleged motivation for the shooting was to show her devotion to him.

‘Trinity has an emotional attachment to Cruz,’ read the affidavit.

‘Her message behind the plan is that she does not like people who think they are better than everyone else and that people should value their everyday life.’

Cruz, now 26, avoided the death penalty and is serving a life sentence.

Shockley has been charged with conspiracy to commit murder, conspiracy to commit intimidation and intimidation.

Her initial court hearing was on Friday and she is being held at Morgan County Jail in Martinsville without bail. Her pretrial conference is set for May 19 and her jury trial is scheduled to begin on June 10.

Mooresville is about 19 miles southwest of Indianapolis.

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