A Queens student was arrested for threatening to shoot up his school, police said.
The chilling episode unfolded Friday morning after police responded to Metropolitan Expeditionary Learning School (MELS) in Forest Hills shortly before 10:20 a.m., cops said.
A 16-year-old boy told classmates he “wanted to obtain a firearm and shoot several students at the school,” other teens reported.
The alleged shooting threat came just arrest comes three days after the Uvalde massacre in Texas.Brigitte Stelzer for NY Post
Eagle-eyed kids also saw the 16-year-old “using school computers for Googling ways to buy firearms,” an NYPD spokesman said.
After the witnesses told school safety agents, the boy was confronted
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