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Police feared a mass shooting in alleged Pokémon plot [View all]
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Police said the arrests of James Stumbo and Kevin Norton over the weekend on gun charges prevented a “potential tragedy.”
“We can never read someone’s mind,” Police Superintendent Paul A. Fitzgerald said, when asked what the men intended to do with their guns. “What we can read is what they were saying and the actions that they took, bringing the weapons they were showing online as a threat.”
Police said they worked on the case with Boston’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, a partnership that includes federal agents.
“That could have been a mass shooting,” Fitzgerald said. “So obviously the federal agencies were concerned with that.”
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/08/24/pokemon-shooting-plot-suspects-set-for-arraignment/rbmvQaA9jc7ONgdpnQUGcN/story.html
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Police said the arrests of James Stumbo and Kevin Norton over the weekend on gun charges prevented a “potential tragedy.”
“We can never read someone’s mind,” Police Superintendent Paul A. Fitzgerald said, when asked what the men intended to do with their guns. “What we can read is what they were saying and the actions that they took, bringing the weapons they were showing online as a threat.”
Police said they worked on the case with Boston’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, a partnership that includes federal agents.
“That could have been a mass shooting,” Fitzgerald said. “So obviously the federal agencies were concerned with that.”
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/08/24/pokemon-shooting-plot-suspects-set-for-arraignment/rbmvQaA9jc7ONgdpnQUGcN/story.html
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