BARTLESVILLE, Oklahoma (AP) — A teenager who authorities say tried to recruit classmates for a mass shooting and bomb attack at his U.S. school has been convicted in a plot to kill students, teachers and police officers.
A jury found 19-year-old Sammie Eaglebear Chavez guilty of planning to cause bodily harm and recommended a 30-month prison term and $5,000 fine. The jury found him not guilty of conspiring to perform an act of violence.
Chavez was arrested in December, hours before a gunman opened fire at a Connecticut elementary school and killed 20 children and six adults before killing himself. A string of mass shootings in recent years have fueled a divisive debate over...
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