Kentucky teen used money mom gave him for tattoo to buy AR-15 to shoot up school

[LAGC]

A Kentucky teenager used money his mother gave him for a tattoo to buy an AR-15 rifle and 500 rounds of ammunition meant to shoot up his high school, police said.

Timothy Felker, 18, a student at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School in Lexington, was charged with “second-degree terroristic threatening,” WKYT reported. He appeared in court Monday for a preliminary hearing. He pleaded not guilty.

The Lexington Police Department said during the preliminary hearing that Felker bought the gun with money his mother gave him for a tattoo.

"Around Christmas or December 2017 is when he purchased the AR-15 with money that his mom gave him for a tattoo, and that he also purchased 500 rounds of ammunition," Sean Stafford, a detective with the Lexington Police Department said.


A tip was made online to STOP, Safety Tipline Online Prevention, on Feb. 16 which stated Felker “owns a gun and constantly talks about killing himself/shooting up the school. He tells specific people he would shoot them first and shoot up the classroom,” the Lexington Herald-Leader reported. Felker reportedly said he wanted to shoot up the school because he was bullied.

Felker’s mother said she was not aware of her son’s threats to the school. She agreed to hand over her son’s rifle and ammunition to police, court documents stated.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/03/27...olice-say.html

Yet ANOTHER school massacre barely thwarted.

Pretty sad how it's more acceptable for a teen to ask for money to pay for a tattoo than it is to purchase a gun.

[imanaknut]

Police did their job, unlike some Florida uniformed civilians. Due to their follow up of a "see something say something" there are 25 people alive today that would have otherwise not seen their next birthday.

[Richard Simmons]

An AR and 500 rounds, how big a tattoo was he getting?

[LAGC]

I don't know, full "sleeves" can cost a pretty penny.

Too bad he didn't get the tattoo instead of the gun -- would have helped him fit right in, where he is going.

[blacksheep]

I don't know, full "sleeves" can cost a pretty penny.

Too bad he didn't get the tattoo instead of the gun -- would have helped him fit right in, where he is going.

Is this the voice of experience ?

[alismith]

So, people like Emma Gonzales pushed another kid to try and shoot up a school..... But, we "didn't know that kid," so it's okay to bully another kid if they are weird and this kid deserved to be bullied.....Got it.

Nope, no consequences for bullying if you happen to know that kid. Got that, too.

[rci2950]

>Money his mother gave him for a tattoo

And we wonder where it all went wrong.

[1 Patriot-of-many]

I don't know, full "sleeves" can cost a pretty penny.

Too bad he didn't get the tattoo instead of the gun -- would have helped him fit right in, where he is going.

Too bad he's not going where he should be, The nearest lamppost after a conviction.