Two students admitted to making a criminal threat in connection with planning a mass shooting at South Pasadena High School last year, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced Wednesday.
The two teens appeared in Pasadena Juvenile Court on Wednesday and admitted to one felony count of criminal threats. The male students, now 18 and 17-years-old, were ordered to be placed home on probation, according to a statement.
Prosecutors said the two talked last August about carrying out a plot to kill three staff members and "as many students as possible." School officials reported the plot to the South Pasadena Police Department before it could be carried out.
Both boys denied the criminal threats charge in August 2014, which is equivalent to entering a not-guilty plea in adult court.
The pair shared their mass shooting plan with another classmate and then threatened to kill the student, prosecutors said.
Although the students did not have a specific date planned and no weapons in their possession, police considered the plan a "viable" threat. The students researched weaponry and tactics online, South Pasadena police Chief Art Miller said.
"It was very viable, what they were plotting," Miller said last year.
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"They were making a huge plan of a school massacre."
