Student stops school shooting by reporting a snapchat

[pixy0stix]

I have a lot of technology questions about this.

www.9news.com/story/news/education/2015/09/02/sierra-linda-high-school-potential-shooting/71595350/



NORTHGLENN - A Colorado student may have prevented a school shooting at an Arizona high school - all due to a Snapchat she saw.

Kaylee is a junior at Northglenn High School. She saw a disturbing picture on a person she didn't know's Snapchat story and talked to her mother, Jackie, about it. After seeing the photo, which alleged the Snapchatter was planning a school shooting, Jackie told Kaylee to immediately report it to the authorities.

Kaylee told her school's safety resource officer who reached out to the school where the Snapchatter attended - Sierra Linda High School in Phoenix, Ariz.

The student was taken into custody in Phoenix once police found evidence that showed the student may have, in fact, been planning a school shooting.

"I'm so very proud of her - a kid who saw something and took the extra step to say something may have saved the lives of kids in another state," Jackie told 9NEWS. "I wonder how many kids saw the same picture and didn't say anything."

The age and gender of the Arizona student taken into custody is not being released at this time.

[taratru]

We got this. YAY. I'm glad that social media did good in a school for once.

[Velar Fricative]

I do too. I don't know Snapchat at all (get off my lawn) but I'm thinking two things:

1) If she didn't know this person, how did she know what school they attended?

2) Why is a Snapchat from someone she doesn't know coming up on her feed?

[pixy0stix]

Sept 2, 2015 14:49:47 GMT -5 Velar Fricative said:

I do too. I don't know Snapchat at all (get off my lawn) but I'm thinking two things:

1) If she didn't know this person, how did she know what school they attended?

2) Why is a Snapchat from someone she doesn't know coming up on her feed?

I think 1 could have been found out by the police contacting snapchat to figure out where the account was from.

2, I don't know. That's my main question, how she saw it in the first place.

[Velar Fricative]

Sept 2, 2015 14:52:09 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

Sept 2, 2015 14:49:47 GMT -5 Velar Fricative said:

I do too. I don't know Snapchat at all (get off my lawn) but I'm thinking two things:

1) If she didn't know this person, how did she know what school they attended?

2) Why is a Snapchat from someone she doesn't know coming up on her feed?

I think 1 could have been found out by the police contacting snapchat to figure out where the account was from.

2, I don't know. That's my main question, how she saw it in the first place.

Then I'm confused by the paragraph which says the girl reached out to her school's safety officer who then reached out to the high school in Arizona. Wouldn't the police department do that? 

[pixy0stix]

I don't know. I have so many questions.

Let me see if I can find more info.

[downtoearth]

Sept 2, 2015 14:54:25 GMT -5 Velar Fricative said:

Sept 2, 2015 14:52:09 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

I think 1 could have been found out by the police contacting snapchat to figure out where the account was from.

2, I don't know. That's my main question, how she saw it in the first place.

Then I'm confused by the paragraph which says the girl reached out to her school's safety officer who then reached out to the high school in Arizona. Wouldn't the police department do that? 

In our town the school safety officers are also City PD - full uniformed police. Maybe that is what it is there also.

As for seeing someone else's snapchat - can't you randomly friend like on instagram?

[sugarglider]

Sept 2, 2015 14:49:47 GMT -5 Velar Fricative said:

I do too. I don't know Snapchat at all (get off my lawn) but I'm thinking two things:

1) If she didn't know this person, how did she know what school they attended?

2) Why is a Snapchat from someone she doesn't know coming up on her feed?

I don't have snapchat, but assuming it's similar to Instagram, maybe it's someone she follows--and therefore knows certain things about, like which school he attends--but doesn't actually know IRL.

[taratru]

Here's probably what happened -
You can see anyone's Snapchat story if they're public. You don't have to be friends with them. They also don't go away like just a Snapchat pic.
Girl sees it, reports it. SRO sends it out statewide (which is how I saw it). Someone said "hey, that looks like so and so school" and they get contacted.

Also, there were other pictures that the kid posted that would have identified who he was definitively.

[Velar Fricative]

Sept 2, 2015 14:57:24 GMT -5 taratru said:

Here's probably what happened -
You can see anyone's Snapchat story if they're public. You don't have to be friends with them. They also don't go away like just a Snapchat pic.
Girl sees it, reports it. SRO sends it out statewide (which is how I saw it). Someone said "hey, that looks like so and so school" and they get contacted.

Also, there were other pictures that the kid posted that would have identified who he was definitively.

Got it, thanks. Kids these days using all this technology I don't understand. *shakes cane*

[taratru]

Sept 2, 2015 14:54:25 GMT -5 Velar Fricative said:

Sept 2, 2015 14:52:09 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

I think 1 could have been found out by the police contacting snapchat to figure out where the account was from.

2, I don't know. That's my main question, how she saw it in the first place.

Then I'm confused by the paragraph which says the girl reached out to her school's safety officer who then reached out to the high school in Arizona. Wouldn't the police department do that? 

In Colorado, SROs are city police officers. 

[pixy0stix]

Sept 2, 2015 14:57:24 GMT -5 taratru said:

Here's probably what happened -
You can see anyone's Snapchat story if they're public. You don't have to be friends with them. They also don't go away like just a Snapchat pic.
Girl sees it, reports it. SRO sends it out statewide (which is how I saw it). Someone said "hey, that looks like so and so school" and they get contacted.

Also, there were other pictures that the kid posted that would have identified who he was definitively.

This clarifies so much! Thanks!

Also, this is the only story I can find published about this incident.

[emilyj]

Sept 2, 2015 14:57:24 GMT -5 taratru said:

Here's probably what happened -
You can see anyone's Snapchat story if they're public. You don't have to be friends with them. They also don't go away like just a Snapchat pic.
Girl sees it, reports it. SRO sends it out statewide (which is how I saw it). Someone said "hey, that looks like so and so school" and they get contacted.

Also, there were other pictures that the kid posted that would have identified who he was definitively.

It's also possible that there may be a "High School Snap" account that students can post to.  That could account for how they knew which high school it was. 

[eponinepontmercy]

Sept 2, 2015 14:58:14 GMT -5 Velar Fricative said:

Sept 2, 2015 14:57:24 GMT -5 taratru said:

Here's probably what happened -
You can see anyone's Snapchat story if they're public. You don't have to be friends with them. They also don't go away like just a Snapchat pic.
Girl sees it, reports it. SRO sends it out statewide (which is how I saw it). Someone said "hey, that looks like so and so school" and they get contacted.

Also, there were other pictures that the kid posted that would have identified who he was definitively.

Got it, thanks. Kids these days using all this technology I don't understand. *shakes cane*

I had no idea what most of that meant.  It was just a few years ago that I was explaining MySpace to my mom as though she was a small child.  How the mighty have fallen.

[cookiemdough]

So other kids that actually knew this person, and presumably also on snapchat (if public) didn't report it?

[sangria]

Sept 2, 2015 15:16:36 GMT -5 cookiemdough said:

So other kids that actually knew this person, and presumably also on snapchat (if public) didn't report it?

That's what I was wondering. 

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Sept 2, 2015 15:31:55 GMT -5 pennypenny said:

This whole article makes me feel old. Thanks for all the additional information because I was not getting it.

I am going to assume stuff like this is posted all the time and people think it is a joke. Good for her for reporting it.

I don't think kids are dumb enough to post things like this all the time. I don't think DH (a high school teacher) has ever seen or heard a school shooting joke. It's like talking about bombs at the airport - you're really likely to get taken very seriously.

[saz]

I really love how this girl saw something and told her mom right away. Please, PLEASE parenting gods can my children be like this?! #goals