Salt Lake mom monitoring Facebook helped thwart teen shooting
Apr-10-2014

A planned shooting near West High School involving a student was thwarted late last week thanks to a mother keeping an eye on her son's Facebook page, according to police.

"This could have been something pretty tragic," said Salt Lake police detective Cody Lougy.

On Friday, a West High parent called the school's resource officer - who is also a Salt Lake police officer - to report comments allegedly written by two male teenagers on Facebook claiming they were going to shoot her son.

"She had actually read threats and seen the threat on his Facebook page," said Salt Lake police detective Greg Wilking. "There were very specific threats that they were going to go the high school and shoot her son."

In addition, Wilking said, "There was a picture of the gun on Instagram, the gun that was seized. And there were letters written on the hand that was holding the gun, and those letters were gang affiliated."

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