Transgender Teenager Charged With Planning School Shooting After Police Discover ‘Manifesto’

Published on April 19, 2024

Police have arrested and charged a transgender teenager who was allegedly planning to commit a school shooting at a Montgomery County school, according to officials. Andrea Ye, 18, of Rockville, Maryland, was arrested by Montgomery County police on Thursday following a joint investigation with the FBI’s Baltimore Field Office, law enforcement officials said in a press release. That probe was launched after police were made aware of a “memoir” Ye allegedly authored which portrays a character committing a school shooting and strategizing about how to carry out the act, police said. Ye also contemplated targeting an elementary school in the memoir and wrote about becoming famous, according to law enforcement officials....

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