Police found two handguns in the bedroom of a teen who threatened a shooting at his suburban Philadelphia high school — just one week after the Connecticut school massacre, cops said yesterday.
The ninth-grader was taken into custody after other students said he made threatening statements, Northampton Township police said.
Two 9 mm handguns were sitting in plain sight in his bedroom when police went to his home, said Detective Sgt. Bill Klein.
“We determined early on that it was credible,” Klein said. “We weren’t sure he had the means to carry it out, but . . . we found the two handguns and that certainly ramped things up.”
The teen, who has not been identified, was locked up at a juvenile facility. When police arrived at the teen’s home his mom was busted on drug and weapons charges.