A Queens student who pledged to shoot up a high school on social media was busted with a loaded gun Thursday after Instagram moderators flagged his disturbing post, officials and sources said.
The 16-year-old student at Benjamin Cardozo High School was nabbed by school safety officers after the FBI traced the phone number associated with the account tabbed by Instagram.
The male student allegedly shared a picture of a mannequin sketch captioned “boutta shoot the school up.”
He was located on school grounds with a loaded handgun, sources told The Post.
No one was injured and the student was taken into custody without incident.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams celebrated law enforcement’s speedy work as “the perfect example of the system working properly.”
“Someone saw the post from the student and did what we ask all New Yorkers to do – if you see something, say something, but most importantly do something, and that is what they did,” Adams said.
“We potentially saved the lives of a lot of students and staff today, and I don’t want to imagine a world where we would be making a different announcement right now.”
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