The Associated Press
VIDOR, Texas (AP) -- Officials uncovered an apparent plot by five Vidor High School students to shoot more than 20 other students and four administrators, the school district superintendent said Tuesday.
No weapons were found with the students or on campus, Superintendent Robert Madding said in a statement. The five students were barred from the school after the plot was discovered Monday, he said. It wasn’t immediately clear how school officials learned of the plot.
Two of the students were taken into custody Monday and were being held pending a court hearing, said Orange County District Attorney John Kimbrough.
“The juvenile prosecutor is going to look at the file today and make a decision,” Kimbrough told the Beaumont Enterprise for its online editions Tuesday. “If need be the hearing will be tomorrow.”
Vidor police, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department and the FBI were notified and an investigation is under way, Madding said. The police and sheriff’s department referred calls to the school district police department, which did not return calls Tuesday.
The administrators and the parents of the students who were threatened were immediately notified, Madding said.
The five students in the alleged plot are minors. Their names and the names of those who were allegedly threatened were not released.