18-year-old from Cape Cod charged in connection with school shooting threat

An 18-year-old from Cape Cod is being held on charges that he threatened to commit a school shooting in Massachusetts.

Ian Fotheringham of Falmouth faces a charge of threatened use of a deadly weapon in a public building, Cape & Islands District Attorney Robert J. Galibois and Falmouth police Chief Jeff Lourie announced on Friday.

According to Galibois and Lourie, the Falmouth Police Department first received a tip about Fotheringham in August.

“Specifically, investigators were informed that allegedly Ian Fotheringham indicated that he wanted to shoot up a school. Mr. Fotheringham did not specify what school; however, Ian Fotheringham allegedly stated that he was refurbishing firearms in his room,” the officials wrote in a statement.

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