The arrest of three Florida teenagers last week may have prevented an attack on a high school where the suspects had identified potential targets and acquired aerial photos of the campus to map out their plot, authorities said.
Text messages that the boys exchanged revealed the identities of other students who the teenagers planned to target in their attack at Creekside High School in the Jacksonville suburb of St. Johns, according to the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies reportedly discovered that the texts included the encircled photographs of the intended targets, as well as their class schedules and home addresses.
The trio also sent one another aerial photographs of the high school, according arrest reports provided Tuesday to USA TODAY.
