An Oklahoma Woman Threatened to Shoot Up Her Former High School ‘For Fun’
18-year-old Oklahoman Alexis Wilson was arrested Monday after allegedly threatening to gun down her former high school classmates "for fun."
She told coworkers at the pizza restaurant where they worked that she wanted to "shoot 400 people for fun and that there were so many people at her old school that she would like to do it,” according to McAlester News-Capital.
She then is said to have showed photographs of herself holding a rifle and bragged about her recent purchase: a semi-automatic AK-47. Wilson's coworkers reported her to the authorities, and officers were able to track her down near her house. According to NBC News, Wilson said she,"was just trying to teach her coworker not to be afraid of firearms." However, she reportedly couldn't explain away the alleged threat aimed at her old school, McAlester High.
She was charged with felony terrorist hoax and is being held on a $250,000 bond at at the Pittsburg County Jail, according to the News-Capital. She’s pleaded not guilty.
According to NBC News, McAlester High officials have said that Wilson dropped out her freshman year. They reportedly told investigators she was suspended for taking a knife to school and for having the swastika symbol printed on her belongings. Wilson was also reportedly bullied at the school, but got "good about just ignoring it," according to a probable cause affidavit obtained by NBC.
After deputies from the Pittsburg County Sheriff’s Office took Wilson into custody for the alleged threats made at the pizza parlor, they found the AK-47 in Wilson's bedroom, in addition to six magazines and a 12-gauge shotgun, according to the News-Capital.
Wilson’s arrest comes just several weeks after a slew of devastating mass shootings across the country, including the massacre of 22 people in El, Paso, Texas, and a gunman who killed ten people and injured 27 others in Dayton, Ohio. Since then, at least four mass shooters—all white men—were thwarted before they could carry out plotted attacks, according to Mother Jones. A recent feature from Cosmopolitan details exactly how top-secret investigators work with the government to infiltrate online hate groups and take down these violent persons before they can take action.
As a woman, Wilson is an outlier. According to the FBI, of the 27 active shooter incidents to take place in 2018, 23 of the shooters were male.
McAlester Public Schools Superintendent Randy Hughes has said they are taking the threat very seriously, and McAlester High will have extra security on campus. “This is something that in today’s time, it’s real and we want to keep our kids safe as much as we can,” Hughes told the News-Capital. “We’re doing as much as we can to make it safe.
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