NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- Police arrested an 18-year-old student for threatening to carry out a mass shooting at Forest Hills High School in Queens last week.
The incident was detailed in a criminal complaint filed by Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz obtained by the New York Post on Saturday.
“I’m going to shoot the school. Like in Texas. Be ready,” Diego Sarmiento wrote on a desk, according to the DA’s office.
Another student discovered the message on May 26 — just two days after the Uvalde shooting in which a gunman killed 19 students and two teachers at a Texas elementary school.
“I was playing around and just wrote it,” he told school administrators when confronted about the graffiti, according to prosecutors.
The NYPD sent mobile metal detectors to the school the next day, and the school sent an email to parents informing them of the incident.
Katz charged Sarmiento with making a terroristic threat, criminal mischief, making graffiti and aggravated harassment
This incident was one in a series of threats against New York City and Long Island schools that were made in the wake of the Uvalde massacre.
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