Plan to stage "mass casualty attack" at Houston-area high school thwarted, authorities say
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Two teenagers are under arrest for allegedly plotting what the FBI is calling "a mass casualty attack" at a Houston-area high school.
CBS Houston affiliate KHOU-TV reports that Spring Branch Independent School District police say evidence suggests the suspects, both females, intended to place pipe bombs and shoot students at Memorial High School in the Houston suburb of Hedwig Village. There was no word on the motive.
The sheriff's office in Montgomery County, just north of Houston, said it was "actively investigating a criminal case involving online threats made by two students." One of them, the office said, is a student at Willis High School in that county and is in custody on unrelated charges. The second, the office added, is a student in the Spring Branch ISD and is being held in Harris County, which includes Houston.
