Buffalo teenager arrested for threatening to shoot at daycare center

A 15-year-old suspect in Buffalo, New York, was arrested after allegedly making online threats to carry out shootings in a kindergarten classroom, local law enforcement authorities said Thursday.

Buffalo police, along with the FBI, executed a search warrant for a home on Sycamore Street on Wednesday after being alerted to a social media post threatening “mass attacks” on a school.

According to Buffalo's WIVB, the threat was allegedly made on the social media site Discord in late August. No specific classroom or school was mentioned, and Buffalo police would not provide any information about which school the suspect attended given his minor status.

When authorities searched the apartment, they discovered a loaded 12-gauge shotgun and additional ammunition. The weapon matches the one seen in the teenager's social media post, police said.

They also seized 6.5 kilograms of marijuana, which led to the arrest of 18-year-old Saeed Saeed, who was identified as the younger suspect's brother. Saeed, the owner of the gun found in the house, was also charged with improper storage of the weapon.

The minor accused of threatening mass injury has not yet been identified.

In 2022, the Times Union reported that there had been 76 school shootings in New York State in the past 50 years. In most of these shootings, the shooter was a teenager.