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Authorities took
four unidentified students into custody after they uncovered
their plan to shoot and kill faculty members and students at
Summerville High School, the Tuolumne County Sheriff's Office
said on Saturday.
"The suspects plan was very detailed in nature and included
names of would be victims, locations and the methods in which
the plan was to be carried out," the sheriff's department said
in a Facebook post.
High school officials reported to authorities on Wednesday that
three students were planning to carry out an attack. During
their investigation, detectives learned that a fourth student
was involved in the plot, the sheriff's office said.
The announcement of the arrests came two days after a
heavily-armed gunman killed nine people at a community college
in Oregon, ranking it among the deadliest of dozens of U.S. mass
shootings in the past two years.
Summerville High School is located in Tuolumne, California,
about 140 miles (225 km) east of San Francisco.
(Reporting by Brendan O'Brien; editing by Susan Thomas)
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