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In the media Responding to the Threat of a Targeted Attack, there were many signs that a targeted school violence incident was imminent. Moving forward in time to post-event in the media, you will see that a tragedy was avoided.

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In the media Responding to the Threat of a Targeted Attack, there were many signs that a targeted school violence incident was imminent. Moving forward in time to post-event in the media, you will see that a tragedy was avoided.

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RH: RESPONDING TO THE THREAT OF A TARGETED ATTACK TRANSCRIPT 1 Responding to the Threat of a Targeted Attack It’s an ordinary day in Riverbend City – but not for long. At 1:27 p.m., the announcement goes out: Lindner Hills High School is on lockdown. Lockdown Facebook post As of 1:27 p.m. Lindner Hills High School is on lockdown. Please DO NOT come to the school. All parents should wait for the all clear to come and pick up their children. Police are at the school and ask that parents stay away from the school until the all clear has been announced. More details will be announced as soon as the situation is resolved. Law enforcement has requested that parents please DO NOT come to the school. For more information about general lockdown procedures, please visit the school’s Web site. Lindner Hills High School Lindner Hills High School is on lockdown, but nobody is too sure what’s happened to prompt it. Victoria Moran, Reporter RESPONDING TO THE THREAT OF A TARGETED ATTACK TRANSCRIPT 2 It’s been a scary day here at Lindner Hills High School. Reports conflict, and we’re still sorting out what happened. But multiple sources say that earlier today, either an attack actually took place, or was imminent, at the school. No injuries or deaths have been reported, but officials and law enforcement personnel are on high alert. Luis Castro I knew he was mad, but dude! What was he thinking? Tracy Davis Is it true that he had an AR-15 and a homemade bomb in his locker? Victoria Moran, Reporter We have reports now that a tip from an anonymous caller prompted a search of some students’ lockers at the school. Police aren’t confirming a search, but they’re not saying it didn’t happen. We don’t know what, if anything, they found in those lockers, but we have learned that at least one student has been arrested. The school is still on lockdown. Back to you, Bob. Michelle Desmond I heard its Trent Buckman. People are saying he was talking a lot of stuff in the last couple of months about how he was going to get even and show everybody. Tracy Davis There must not be a bomb, or we’d probably be evacuated by now. But there must have been some kind of gun or weapon involved. RESPONDING TO THE THREAT OF A TARGETED ATTACK TRANSCRIPT 3 News Reports Information is starting to be available about an anonymous tip that prompted the lockdown at Lindner Hills High School. Reporter Victoria Moran reports on the scene and on what various sources are telling her about a student who may have planned an attack on the school Victoria Moran And we have an update now on the Lindner Hills High School lockdown. Bob, it’s been almost three hours since the school went on lockdown. Earlier, we reported that several students’ lockers had been searched. We’ve confirmed that, but we’ve also learned that only one student’s locker was searched. More later, we hope, on what was found in that locker, and whether the arrested student is the owner of that locker or another student. I’m told that the lockdown is still in place, but the chief of police is going to make a statement. Glen Edwards: Good afternoon. I’m Glen Edwards:, chief of the Riverbend City Police, and I have some information about the incident at Lindner Hills High School. As of this moment, the school is still on lockdown, but we have almost completed a search of the school, and we expect to release the lockdown very soon. Victoria Moran RESPONDING TO THE THREAT OF A TARGETED ATTACK TRANSCRIPT 4 Through sources at the school, WNRT has confirmed the name of the student who was arrested, but we are not releasing his name because he is a minor. They say that one of the items found in his locker was a photo of the shooter in Orlando. We also have some information about his motivation, but that has not yet been confirmed so we’re going to hold off on sharing that. Finally, police sources say that there were more armaments than what was found in the student’s locker, although they’re not saying what kind. Glen Edwards: Good afternoon. Earlier today, at about 1:15 p.m., Riverbend City Police received a tip from an anonymous caller. The caller said that a student was planning an attack on the school, and that a search of the student’s locker would reveal an arsenal for the attack. The caller seemed familiar with the student’s plan, saying that the attack would come after fifth period. We conducted a search of the locker and found many items, not all of which I’m going to disclose here. But one of those items was an AR-15 assault rifle. Upon this discovery, officers went to the student’s classroom and completed an arrest. The lockdown was a precautionary measure, in case the student had accomplices or incendiary devices. At this time, we’ve completed our search, and believe that the school is safe. The lockdown is suspended, the all clear has been announced, and parents can come and pick up their children if they would like. That’s all for now. Victoria Moran While the chief was speaking, I spoke to Bruce Greenberg:, superintendent of the Riverbend City School District. Mr. Greenberg is here at the scene, but was not willing to interview live with us. He did tell me that information will RESPONDING TO THE THREAT OF A TARGETED ATTACK TRANSCRIPT 5 soon be forthcoming about what resources are available to parents and children for dealing with the reaction to today’s lockdown – and the incident or incidents that prompted the lockdown. We expect to have more for you later about what happened today and who was involved, but for now, neither the police nor the school are saying very much. This is Victoria Moran, reporting live from Lindner Hills High School. Bob? Interrogating the Suspect Isabella Davalos: This is Isabella Davalos, Riverbend City Police Department. The time is 5:13 p.m., and this will be a recorded conversation with Julia Bancroft, the school resource officer at Lindner Hills High School, and Trent Buckman, a senior at Lindner Hills High School. Trent, are you okay? Trent Buckman: [sounding depressed, low] sure. Isabella Davalos: Trent, we’d like to talk to you about what happened today, and about what’s been going on before today. Are you willing to talk to us? Trent Buckman: Whatever. Isabella Davalos: Well, you’ve been advised of your rights. Did you understand them? Trent Buckman: I watch CSI, lady. Isabella Davalos: That’s fine, but I want to make sure you understand… Trent Buckman: …that I don’t have to talk. I know. Just ask what you want to ask. Julia Bancroft: Trent, you seem really sad, really low down. RESPONDING TO THE THREAT OF A TARGETED ATTACK TRANSCRIPT 6 Trent Buckman: Of course I am. Some jerk ruined my plan. I’ve been working on it for months. Isabella Davalos: Months? Trent Buckman: Yes, months. Julia Bancroft: Trent, I know you’ve never met Isabella here before. But you and I know each other a little bit, don’t we? Trent Buckman: Yeah, sure. Julia Bancroft: And I want to help you. I know, I know, you don’t think you need any help. But this is a big deal, Trent. I don’t know if you know how big a deal this is. Trent Buckman: [getting excited, angry] are you kidding? Of course it’s a big deal! But it’s not big enough! I planned this forever and I was going to outdo some of those other morons who just put their weapon on auto and kept firing! I was going to use semi-auto, which is more accurate, and leave all those other poser killers in the dust! Julia Bancroft: Well, look, Trent. You didn’t get to do that. And now you’re in a lot of trouble. So I’m asking if you will let me help you. There’s a chance you can do the right things and get the help you need. But you have to talk to me, or to Isabella, or both of us. The more you help us, the more we can help you. Trent Buckman: [sounding resigned] Fine, whatever. Julia Bancroft: Let’s talk about what you were planning on. Were you planning to kill a lot of students with that rifle? Trent Buckman: As many as I could. My real-life Call of Duty arena, that’s what this school was going to be. RESPONDING TO THE THREAT OF A TARGETED ATTACK TRANSCRIPT 7 Julia Bancroft: What about teachers? Police? Trent Buckman: [suddenly animated] whoever came into the line of fire? I was going to go for my own personal high score, you know what I mean? Julia Bancroft: Did you have anyone specific in mind? Anyone you were planning to seek out and shoot? Trent Buckman: Not really. Isabella Davalos: Not really? Trent Buckman: I said, not really. I could have killed way more people than that loser in Orlando. But the only way I was going to do it was if I didn’t lose focus. So whoever crossed my path, they were going down. I was going to make Orlando look like nothing. Isabella Davalos: What does that mean? Trent Buckman: It means that if certain people had crossed my path, I would have mowed them down, but I wasn’t going to go looking for them. Isabella Davalos: Who are those people? Trent Buckman: [pauses, then doesn’t answer] Isabella Davalos: Trent, do you know why I’m asking about specific people? Trent Buckman: No. Isabella Davalos: I’m really asking you what made this seem like a good idea. Were you mad at someone specific, and you were planning to kill them and others too? Or were you just mad in general? [pauses, waits] Or sad? RESPONDING TO THE THREAT OF A TARGETED ATTACK TRANSCRIPT 8 Trent Buckman: [quietly] I don’t know. Julia Bancroft: Trent, some of the other students have been saying that you’ve been in a pretty bad mood for a while, like a few months. Is that true? Trent Buckman: I guess. Julia Bancroft: Has anything been going on that put you in such a bad mood? Have you been having trouble at school? Or at home? Trent Buckman: [Bitterly] What difference does it make? Are you going to send me to counseling? Besides, what do you care? I’ve been at war with the bastards on the football team for weeks. One of them knocked me into a trash can last week. But nobody cared then. Julia Bancroft: Trent, we’d like to help. If something has been happening to you, or you’re in trouble, or you’re feeling really depressed, we’d like to get you some help. And yes, we’d like to know why you were thinking about shooting a lot of people. Trent Buckman: [angry] Why wouldn’t I be thinking about shooting a lot of people? Don’t you know what’s going on? Isabella Davalos: What do you mean? Trent Buckman: Society! There’s no real order anymore. It’s going to be the strong who survive. You can’t trust anything, everything is corrupt…I was practicing for when all of society falls apart. The terrorists are coming for us. There are tons of Reddits about the end of the U.S. They know it’s not a matter of if, but when. Survival of the fittest. The people I talk to on Reddit and a couple of other places, they know the deal. We talk about how to survive the apocalypse, and how to keep the sheep from getting in our way. RESPONDING TO THE THREAT OF A TARGETED ATTACK TRANSCRIPT 9 Isabella Davalos: When did you start thinking about this, Trent? Trent Buckman: About society? Or mowing down half the school? Isabella Davalos: Both. Trent Buckman: I don’t know how long I’ve felt this way about society. A long time. But doing something about it…I dunno, since last fall? Julia Bancroft: Did anything happen last fall? Trent Buckman: I got mugged down by the stadium. Some junkie creep took my iPhone and knocked me down. [Turns sarcastic] Oh noes! Do you think I have PTSD now? Help me! I’m a victim! [Now angry] Made me so mad. Deadpool wouldn’t let himself get ripped off by the dregs of humanity. If I’d had two swords, they’d have found that guy in pieces. Julia Bancroft: Do you have a girlfriend? Trent Buckman: No. Julia Bancroft: You did then, though, didn’t you? Trent Buckman: Yes. Julia Bancroft: She broke up with you? Trent Buckman: Why do you ask if she dumped me? Maybe I dumped her. Julia Bancroft: Did you? Trent Buckman: [low and sad again] No. She dumped me. Julia Bancroft: And when was this? RESPONDING TO THE THREAT OF A TARGETED ATTACK TRANSCRIPT Trent Buckman: Right before Thanksgiving. Isabella Davalos: Is your ex-girlfriend one of those people you would have shot if she crossed your path? Trent Buckman: No. Isabella Davalos: No? Trent Buckman: What, are you deaf? I said no. She’s no better or worse than the rest of these sheep. Isabella Davalos: Even though she broke up with you? Trent Buckman: Yes. Even though she broke up with me. Isabella Davalos: So were you hoping to impress her? Trent Buckman: It would have gotten her attention, all right. Isabella Davalos: Did she know you were going to do it? Trent Buckman: No. Isabella Davalos: Did anyone else know you were going to do it? Trent Buckman: No. What, you think I’d trust anyone to keep their yap shut about this? If I’d pulled it off, I’d have posted my manifesto everywhere. You don’t go down in history if you blather about your plans to everyone. Isabella Davalos: Do you have a manifesto written already? Trent Buckman: Of course! You don’t go down in history without a manifesto! 10 RESPONDING TO THE THREAT OF A TARGETED ATTACK TRANSCRIPT 11 Lessons Learned The Threat Assessment Team meets to talk about Trent Buckman’s planned attack on the school, the police response, and how the process of assessing threats should be changed to meet future threats more effectively. Isabella Davalos, Riverbend City Police senior investigator: Let’s start with a recap of yesterday’s events. This will be familiar to most of you, but some of it will not be. At 1:15 p.m., an anonymous caller contacted the 5th Precinct Station and said that he had a tip about a student who was planning to kill a lot of people at the school. The caller was male and has since been identified as Luis Castro, a student at Lindner Hills and a friend of Trent Buckman’s. Bruce Greenberg, superintendent of the Riverbend City Public School District: A student reported this? And meanwhile, one of our teachers didn’t. One of Mr. Buckman’s teachers at Lindner Hills has come forward since the incident to say that she had noticed a disturbing trend in his writing. She says she thought it was just Trent being intense, but I think there might be more to it than that. Isabella Davalos: Well, in fairness, the student called with an actual tip, whereas it sounds like your teacher was aware of a change but not understanding what it meant. At any rate, the information that Mr. Castro was the anonymous caller is not being released widely. Mr. Castro was a little concerned about his safety, although he also said that he suspected Trent would figure out who made the tip. We immediately contacted the school, where Officer Bancroft was already on site and able to prepare the logistics for searching Trent’s locker and eventually arresting him. RESPONDING TO THE THREAT OF A TARGETED ATTACK TRANSCRIPT 12 Julia Bancroft: I contacted the school’s administration office immediately and they were able to tell me what locker we needed to search and what class Trent was currently in. We were even able to check the early attendance records to confirm that he had been in earlier classes today, and was likely to be in his current class. Isabella Davalos: While Mr. Buckman’s arrest was being conducted, separate units staked out and then eventually entered and searched his home. As has been reported, the search of his locker at school revealed an AR-15 assault rifle. But as has not been reported, also discovered in the locker were three magazines and several boxes of .223 Remington ammunition. The search of Mr. Buckman’s bedroom revealed a duffle bag that contained 23 pipe bombs with nails and metal ball bearings wrapped around the outside of them with black tape. Bruce Greenberg: What? Good lord. Any idea why he left those pipe bombs at home instead of planting them at the school? Isabella Davalos: Not yet. Jenny Cunningham:, Riverbend City emergency manager and city representative on the Threat Assessment Team Maybe they weren’t intended for the school. Maybe he had plans for a much wider attack. This information probably should have been provided to the city before now, don’t you think? In case it turned out that a city-wide, rather than just a school, response was necessary? ` In the future, I assume that the information about the pipe bombs will be released to the public? People do a lot of speculating and the last thing we need is a bunch of urban legends out there instead of the actual facts of what happened. RESPONDING TO THE THREAT OF A TARGETED ATTACK TRANSCRIPT 13 Lara McKenzie, public liaison for the Riverbend City Police Department and public information officer on the incident response team: We actually saw a certain amount of that with this incident. Does anyone have any idea who the “multiple sources” were who talked to WNRT? We weren’t really ready to do that press conference when we did, but with all the information leaks, we decided we better get out in front and keep people calm. That’s why Glen made his statement at 4:30 instead of after the search was completed. Bruce Greenberg: I’m a little more concerned about the responsibility of my teachers to spot this kind of thing before it happens. I’m grateful for this kid who called the cops, but how are our teachers supposed to know that one of their kids is about to blow? None of us knows what to look for. Kids are unpredictable, and they’re kids, so they do stupid things and get interested in whatever their parents are telling them is off limits. How are we supposed to know which kid is just rebelling a little and which one is planning mass murder? Glen Edwards: Well, the tip from Luis Castro may seem like a godsend. But actually that’s how a lot of these cases go. The National Threat Assessment Center did a study a few years ago of school violence incidents, and they found that most of the time, in cases of targeted mass violence or mass murder, the offender actually tells someone what they plan to do. Whether it’s out loud, in a letter, over social media, or something else or a combo of ways, they tell someone or more than one person about their plans. But most of the time, those folks never tell anyone what they heard. So in that sense, Luis’s call was a godsend. Bruce Greenberg: But we can’t rely on that kind of thing. What kind of education do we need to be doing of our teachers and staff, so they can spot potentially violent kids before they make the news? RESPONDING TO THE THREAT OF A TARGETED ATTACK TRANSCRIPT 14 Glen Edwards: Here’s the problem. When offenders tell teachers, school administrators, parents, students, or acquaintances what they plan to do, those folks don’t tell anyone — because they don’t understand the information they are being presented with. They don’t believe it, they don’t have the whole picture, and they don’t know what to look for. We can’t rely on anonymous tips, because they don’t always happen, and there’s no way to detect them ahead of time or stop them if they are determined enough. So instead of trying to predict the next incident, we instead want to prevent a copycat incident from this one. We do that by limiting the amount of information we put out there. Jenny Cunningham: That’s great, but the public doesn’t care about the next one. They care about this one, and whether we got it right or wrong, and what we might have missed. And I care too. I’d rather know that we did everything to prevent this attack that nearly happened. We’ve got this Threat Assessment Team, and that’s great, but the first I heard of this kid was from you, Glen, after he’d been arrested and interrogated. What do we have a Threat Assessment Team for if not to, you know, assess? Isabella Davalos: It’s a good question. I’ve been looking over his social media feeds, and there are some pretty obvious signs there – well, at least in retrospect they’re obvious. Is this something the Threat Assessment Team should be doing? Monitoring the students’ social media feeds? Bruce Greenberg: And while I don’t like the idea of teachers being Big Brother, we really should be encouraging them to speak up if they see something disturbing. I haven’t had a detailed conversation with Ms. Davis, but I get the feeling that – at least in retrospect – she had seen some signs that worried her. What do we need to do to encourage teachers to be more proactive and get others involved when they’ve got concerns? RESPONDING TO THE THREAT OF A TARGETED ATTACK TRANSCRIPT 15 Julia Bancroft: Maybe we need to start having regular check-ins with teachers to ask them what they think, and give them some prompts to say things like “Hey, Bob seems really down this week,” or “Malik was in three shouting matches with other students this week, maybe somebody ought to check on him.” Lara McKenzie: There definitely needs to be better liaison with the media. If they have a reliable, specific source at the school who can give them accurate information each time, they’ll be less likely to rely on unofficial sources. Not that they won’t still talk to whoever they can. But we can help them to help us by covering the right things, rather than speculation and fearmongering. Keith Bauer: Agreed. If you want them to cover it in a way that doesn’t make it worse, you really do have to give them something to run with. They have to keep broadcasting and keep talking even if there’s nothing new, and we can’t change that. But by being more strategic about what we tell them, we can keep their coverage from becoming part of the problem. For instance, we can focus on providing information about how systems worked to prevent him from carrying out his attack, rather than about the nature of his intended attack. It’s only been a week since this incident, and there’s already a kid at Ruby Lake High School who’s been arrested because he was talking about doing his own attack. He mentioned Trent’s name, and some of the details of his arsenal. We don’t know if he heard about it through word of mouth or social media or the official media coverage, though. RESPONDING TO THE THREAT OF A TARGETED ATTACK TRANSCRIPT 16 Conclusion A real tragedy has been averted at Lindner Hills High School. But as everyone on the Threat Assessment Team knows, Trent Buckman may not be the last student to plan an attack. How can law enforcement officials, school leaders, and others use what they learned in this incident to respond to the next one?
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The overall response of the Riverbend City School System in reference to the threat of
one student who had planned shoot the students, as well as teachers, would have crossed his
path that very same day is somehow effective. The school system had no knowledge of a
threat of an imminent attack at the school. However, the lockdown of the school after the
discovery that one of the students had planned an attack at the school that would have left
many dead and other injured was the best decision the school would have made. The
lockdown of the school occurred after the arrest of the student, Trent Buckham who was a
senior in the high school and after there was a discovery made in his locker that he had an
AR-15 assault rifle. The lockdown proved effective since it served as a precaution to ensure
that no other attackers who would be Trent accomplices would have made their entry into the
school to still carry out their plan (Jimerson, 2010).
When it comes to the overall response of the Police Department in the area, the
overall response was more than effective. In the event of discovering the dangerous weapons
in one of the student's lockers following an anonymous tip, the department ensured that the
school was on lockdown and informed the parents to stay away from the school until it was
clear for them to pick them up. In addition, their overall response when it came to responding
to the anonymous tip that led to the arrest of ...


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