A 19-year-old teenager who was convicted of plotting a mass shooting at an Indiana high school earlier this year has been sentenced.
Trinity Shockley was sentenced to 20 years in jail, with eight years suspended, after pleading guilty to conspiracy to murder on November 24. According to online court records, Shockley’s sentence will be followed by five years on probation.
Shockley apologized passionately to the intended target in court and to the community, saying, “I am so sorry I put you in that position of fear,” according to WFYI-FM. Shockley claimed that the presence of “people who care about me” had improved her mental health.
She was apprehended when a friend reported to the FBI’s Sandy Hook tip line that the high school senior planned to perpetrate a mass shooting at Mooresville High School on February 14.
The report stated that Shockley “admired” Nikolas Cruz, the gunman who carried out the tragic 2018 mass shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. She had access to an AR-15 and had ordered a bulletproof vest. Shockley has indicated that she had previously been bullied.
Joseph Gaunt, Shockley’s attorney, maintained that his client had no intention of carrying out the mass killing.
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