A Kentucky teenager was charged in court this week with making second-degree terroristic threats -- and police say that he planned to carry out a school shooting using an AR-15 rifle that he bought with money that his mother had given him for a tattoo.
Local news station WKYT reports that 18-year-old Timothy Felker this week appeared at a preliminary hearing over alleged threats that he made to shoot his classmates at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School in Lexington, Kentucky.
During the hearing, police revealed new information about how Felker had come to be in possession of an AR-15 that he had bought to allegedly use in his planned school massacre.
"Around Christmas or December 2017 is when he purchased the AR-15 with money that his mom gave him for a tattoo, and that he also purchased 500 rounds of ammunition," said Lexington police detective Sean Stafford.
Three students have said that they heard Felker threaten to shoot up his school as revenge for being bullied by classmates. Felker's mother, who acknowledges that her son has some anger issues, said she still couldn't imagine him committing mass murder of his fellow students.
Felker has pleaded not guilty to making terroristic threats.