A former high school student was taken into police custody after she threatened to shoot hundreds of students at her former school, according to multiple reports.
Alexis Wilson, a former student of McAlester High School, was taken into police custody on Sept. 16 after police were informed of the threat she had made against the high school and its students, according to McAlester News. ABC 8 Tulsa reported that Wilson told her coworkers she had bought an AK-47 and showed co-worker videos of her shooting her new gun.
Chris Morris, the Pittsburg County Sheriff, said that they received an anonymous tip that led authorities to Wilson, according to McAlester News. Investigators found videos of Wilson shooting her newly bought gun, and that she had told both her friends and coworkers that she planned to “shoot up” her former school.
“We’d seen video of her shooting guns. She showed [the] video to her friends and told them she had recently purchased a gun and told her friends she was going to shoot up the school,” Morris said.
“This is something we take very, very [seriously] and there was no time to sit and wait around,” Morris said.
Soon after, authorities arrived at Wilson’s house and interviewed her before taking her into custody, according to McAlester News. In addition, ABC 8 Tulsa reported that authorities also seized Wilson’s newly bought AK-47, along with six magazines and a black 12-gauge shotgun with stock sleeves for extra shells.
According to Crime Online, Wilson is on a $250,000 bond, and will be due for court on Sept. 27.
According to the Pittsburg County Sheriff’s Office incident report, one of Wilson’s coworkers said that Wilson had made threats to “shoot 400 people for fun and that there were so many people at her old school that she would like to do it.”
Sgt. Micah Stites and Deputy Matthew Jordan were among those who had investigated Wilson. During the investigation, Wilson was read her Miranda Rights before they talked to her about her alleged threats, the report stated.
Authorities asked Wilson if she had said anything to coworkers regarding her guns and she admitted to doing so, and added that she told her coworkers about buying a gun recently and asking them to come to her home to shoot with her, according to the report.
In the report, Wilson agreed to show authorities the videos in question before the officers took her phone as part of evidence. However, immediately after, Wilson became nervous and informed the officers that she had criminal and disturbing content stored on her phone. Because of her history of being bullied, she used to be suicidal and “borderline homicidal,” the report stated.
Wilson was asked further whether she had talked about shooting up a school, and at first, Wilson denied saying so, but later said that she would never actually carry out an actual school shooting and the coworker had taken what she said there in the wrong way, according to the report. Wilson was trying to convince her coworkers that not all gun owners were bad people and tried to persuade her coworkers to see her point of view on guns, the report stated.
Jordan documented in the report that he had asked her “if she said something that she should not have said and she stated she was unsure and that she never meant for it to be taken in that way.”
The authorities were made aware of Wilson attempt to re-enroll in McAlester, but was denied enrollment due to previous incidents that happened between her and the school, McAlester News reported. She tried to enroll in night school to finish her GED but the school did not offer that curriculum. ABC 8 Tulsa reported that Wilson was asked whether she was upset about being unable to enroll. Wilson denied being upset about it.
When asked whether she thought about hurting anyone at the school, Wilson informed authorities she had those thoughts before but not anymore, the report stated.
Wilson was taken into police custody and placed in the Pittsburg County Jail.
