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It seems to me like he got cucked harder with his plans than @FuckYou.
A Poultney teenager is behind bars after police say he threatened to shoot up a local high school.
Jack Sawyer
Jack Sawyer, 18, will appear before a judge in the Rutland County Courthouse Friday.
He was arrested Thursday after police say he threatened a mass school shooting at the Fair Haven High School.
He is being charged with attempted aggravated murder, attempted first-degree murder and attempted aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
Police haven't released many details about the threat but say they're collecting evidence and conducting interviews.
Anyone who has recently talked to Sawyer is asked to call police.
He is being held without bail.
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RUTLAND, Vt. (WCAX) "By the grace of God and the bravery of a courageous young woman did we avert disaster," said Gov. Phil Scott, talking about a foiled plot to shoot up Fair Haven Union High School.
Police say the plot was concocted by Jack Sawyer, 18, of Poultney. Sawyer appeared in court Friday to face charges of aggravated attempted murder, attempted first-degree murder and attempted aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
The murderous plot took days to unravel. But most importantly, there was no attack and no one was hurt.
So what exactly lead police to Sawyer? It was thanks to a few concerned citizens who came forward to police. And police say it's lucky they did because they say Sawyer had already put together what he called "The Journal of an Active Shooter." In it, were lists of weapons he intended to buy, plans for how to carry out the shooting and a list of current and former students who he wanted to die.
Sawyer walked into Rutland court in camo and handcuffs Friday afternoon, charged with plotting to carry out a mass shooting at his former high school.
"There's been 18 school shootings since January 1. And you always think in my career like, this is Fair Haven. It's not going to happen here," Fair Haven Police Chief Bill Humphries said.
Humphries said they were first alerted to the threat Wednesday. Someone told police that Monday, they heard Sawyer was acting strangely and had made threats against Fair Haven Union High School. Then, they were told Sawyer had bought a shotgun at Dick's Sporting Goods in Rutland, along with ammo. But when police spoke to him on Wednesday, he told them it was for target practice and he said he hadn't made any threats against the school in the past two years.
"We had found no probable cause to make an arrest," Humphries said.
But that changed the next day when a juvenile from New York alerted police to disturbing text messages from Sawyer, reading in part, "Just a few days ago I was still plotting on shooting up my old high school..." And then, in response to the school shooting in Florida: "That's fantastic. I 100% support it... I think the human population sucks so I like to hear about cases of natural selection... It's just natural selection taken up a notch."
"This is a classic example of the person who came forward, from out of state, is the true hero out of this because they put aside everything else to say, 'I think there's a problem.' And based on that, it allowed law enforcement to intervene and avert a potential disaster," Humphries said.
During an interview with police, Sawyer allegedly confessed to his plot.
"He told detectives that he was planning from a couple of years ago to shoot up Fair Haven High School," said Maj. Glenn Hall of the Vermont State Police.
Sawyer told investigators he'd gone to the high school for his freshman and part of his sophomore year before running away and eventually being sent away for mental health treatment in Maine.
He also allegedly told police he was obsessed with the Columbine High School shootings and had researched them extensively. And police say he told them he bought the shotgun recently, as part of his plot to shoot up Fair Haven High School. Sawyer allegedly told police he planned to take out the school resource officer first and then use an AR-15 and other guns to kill as many students as he could before taking his own life. And he allegedly told police he wasn't sure when he was going to carry out the plan but he would no matter what.
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BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) The Fair Haven teen accused of plotting to shoot up his school exhaustively outlined how he would go about an alleged mass shooting, keeping a journal of his plans.
Our Eva McKend spoke with forensic psychologist Tom Powell about what we can learn from Jack Sawyer's journal. Watch the video for the full interview.
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RUTLAND, Vt. (WCAX) New clues about the case against Jack Sawyer. Sawyer is the teen who allegedly plotted to go on a shooting spree at Fair Haven Union High School. Tuesday in court, we got a look at the evidence prosecutors will use against the teen. We heard from witnesses for more than two hours and testimony still wasn't done when this story was published. Most of them have been police officers, but we also heard from the acting principal of the high school. All of them giving a clearer picture of why prosecutors believed Sawyer posed a real threat.
Sawyer, 18, walked into Rutland court on Tuesday in handcuffs. His defense attorney asking a judge if they could be removed. They weren't.
First on the stand was the acting principal of Fair Haven Union High School, Jason Rasco.
"There were a number of red flags," Rasco said.
From him, we learned that Sawyer had raised red flags at the school in March 2016 while researching a report on Columbine. The principal said teachers and students reported they were concerned. He said Sawyer had also started writing on social media under the name of one of the Columbine shooters. He said he had conversations with Sawyer and based on those, the school began a threat assessment of Sawyer.
The school resource officer testified that he believed Sawyer had both the means and motivation to be a threat. At that point, Sawyer ran away to California and was later sent by his parents to the Brattleboro Retreat, and then to a treatment school in Maine. So he never returned to the school. He said earlier this month, 38 students called out because of Sawyer being back in town.
We also heard several video clips from Sawyer's five-hour interview with police. In one clip, he admits to police that he was still angry with the school. In another, they discussed alleged Facebook messages between Sawyer and a friend in which he called the Florida school shooting awesome. And in a third clip, he discusses with police the different guns he would use to carry out his plan.
There is still more evidence testimony scheduled for this week. That has tentatively been scheduled for Friday morning. In the meantime, Sawyer is being held without bail while it is determined whether he should be held behind bars while he awaits trial.
It seems to me like he got cucked harder with his plans than @FuckYou.
