A judge will decide the case of a former Montgomery County high school student charged with making threats of mass violence.
Alex Ye, a former student of Wootton High School in Rockville, Maryland, was arrested in April 2024 after authorities discovered a 129-page document in which investigators say Ye wrote about strategizing how to carry out a school shooting.
The trial centers around the 129-page document Ye wrote. It’s been referred to as a story that describes a main character fantasizing about shooting up their school. The prosecution argued there are striking similarities between the main character of the story and Ye’s life, therefore that story could reasonably be looked at as a true threat to the school…