Planned shooting stopped at Bay Area high school via Sandy Hook Promise tip line

Thanks to a single voice speaking up, a planned school attack was prevented.

A mother is making it her life’s mission to prevent tragedy. Nicole Hockley’s son Dylan was one of 20 children killed in 2012 at the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Hockley co-founded the nonprofit Sandy Hook Promise.

A free resource that teaches students how to recognize warning signs of violence and offers an anonymous reporting system.

“What we know is that a student saw a concerning post on a friend’s Instagram feed and reported it to our anonymous reporting system manned at our crisis center down in Miami,” Hockley said.

The posts included images of firearms, ammunition, and a mapped-out plan for attacking the school. The district told ABC7 News, it was Menlo-Atherton High School.

Read more: ABC 7