Eden, N.Y. — Three 16-year-old students have been arrested for allegedly plotting an attack at their rural western New York high school.
Police in this Erie County town 20 miles south of Buffalo placed the boys under house arrest Thursday after the students allegedly talked about killing students, teachers and emergency personnel.
The threats came the same day an 18-year-old student allegedly wounded three students and two teachers at Granite Hills High School in El Cajon, Calif. A threat broadcast on the radio shortly after that shooting led to the closings of at least three other nearby schools.
The father of one of the Eden boys was arrested on disorderly conduct charges for insulting investigators during the boys' arrests.
As a condition of the students' arrests, their parents agreed to turn over any weapons in their homes. Seven guns were turned in. Police said there was no evidence the boys had planned to use any of the weapons.
The boys, who were described by police as being at the top of their class, popular, and involved in student clubs and athletics, were charged with second-degree criminal solicitation.
They threatened an attack similar the 1999 rampage at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., that left 15 people dead.
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