Rockville Teen Charged with Threats of Mass Violence

[Anonymous]

This story is fishy.
There was no threat. There was no evidence the student was going to carry out any act.
The student had written something that they clearly said was a work of fiction and someone tipped off police to it.
I don't think this will hold up and meanwhile there's a lot of damage to a student who was already trying to get help.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/04/18/wootton-high-school-threat-arrest/

[Anonymous]

Per WaPo, suspect was at some point a Wootton student, but had been extensively hospitalized for psychiatric cast over past 2 years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:WaPo with more, including the defense that the manifesto/memoir was fiction.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/04/18/wootton-high-school-threat-arrest/

Oof. This sounds like a young person in crisis, who had recently been hospitalized for suicidal and violent ideation, but who did not have a weapon.

However, I think everyone did the right thing here. Someone reported him, maybe even a mental health professional or his own family. Not keep illegal adult from purchasing one, arrest seems like the only choice.

[Anonymous]

^^^ I lost part of my sentence up there. I meant to say that red flag laws can only force someone to give up their gun, not keep them from acquiring one.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:"Andrea Ye, of Rockville, whose preferred name is Alex Ye, was arrested on Wednesday, April 17, 2024, by the Montgomery County Police Department."

So is this person a biological male or female?

Who cares

Does it kind of feel like MCPD wants everyone to know Ye is trans/gender nonconforming? They could have just said "Andrea AKA Alex Ye"

Andrea/Alex is referred as HE at the end of the release:

Ye was taken into custody and charged with threats of mass violence. He is currently being held at the Montgomery County Central Processing Unit where he awaits a bond hearing.

Andrea is also a common man’s name in some countries (e.g. Andrea Boccelli). It’s entirely possible he preferred to be called Alex to avoid teasing or misgendering by Americans who assume it’s a girl’s name.

Better to hold out for facts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"Andrea Ye, of Rockville, whose preferred name is Alex Ye, was arrested on Wednesday, April 17, 2024, by the Montgomery County Police Department."

So is this person a biological male or female?

Who cares

Does it kind of feel like MCPD wants everyone to know Ye is trans/gender nonconforming? They could have just said "Andrea AKA Alex Ye"

You don't know what MCPD said vs what the article author decided or guessed.

For better or for worse, we don't have an established linguistic culture of avoiding implicating a gender when it's is not clearly known, or just necessary to mention.

This a symptom of a broader problem in news reporting, where journalists do not provide copies or pointers of primary resources.

What you are calling a "news article" is a press release from MCPD itself, so you criticism of what you believe to be a "broader problem in news reporting" does not apply here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This story is fishy.
There was no threat. There was no evidence the student was going to carry out any act.
The student had written something that they clearly said was a work of fiction and someone tipped off police to it.
I don't think this will hold up and meanwhile there's a lot of damage to a student who was already trying to get help.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/04/18/wootton-high-school-threat-arrest/

I'm going to suggest that if you feel the need to write extensive fictional plans of highly realistically detailed mass murder, you should engage under close supervision from your therapist, and also provide notice to law enforcement as a show of harmless intent.

Anything less is reckless negligence to say the least. If you are not planning an attack, either you are sane enough to know it's fiction and can engage with authorities, or you are experiencing some sort of disconnect and need to be securely hospitalized.

[Anonymous]

Interesting

https://www.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/BBPLLG56933D/$file/Andrea%20Ye.pdf

[Anonymous]

There’s no way in a police press release they would list a Nickname. This has to be about deadnaming .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There’s no way in a police press release they would list a Nickname. This has to be about deadnaming .

Agreed

[Anonymous]

It's been over a day. Why are the police stonewalling on release a complete investigation including full details validating my pet theory based on a brief news article and zero personal knowledge?

[Anonymous]

You'd think they'd have a news conference about something this important today, not tomorrow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This story is fishy.
There was no threat. There was no evidence the student was going to carry out any act.
The student had written something that they clearly said was a work of fiction and someone tipped off police to it.
I don't think this will hold up and meanwhile there's a lot of damage to a student who was already trying to get help.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/04/18/wootton-high-school-threat-arrest/

So Alex is a transgender man.....

The recent investigation of Ye began, according to court records, on March 3 after police in the Baltimore area were contacted by a person who said he knew Ye from their time together at a psychiatric facility and alerted police to the writings.


“The story focused on a transgender main character being bullied in school and other issues that [the acquaintance] believed were directly from Ye’s life and not indicative of fiction,” investigators wrote.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This story is fishy.
There was no threat. There was no evidence the student was going to carry out any act.
The student had written something that they clearly said was a work of fiction and someone tipped off police to it.
I don't think this will hold up and meanwhile there's a lot of damage to a student who was already trying to get help.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/04/18/wootton-high-school-threat-arrest/

So Alex is a transgender man.....

The recent investigation of Ye began, according to court records, on March 3 after police in the Baltimore area were contacted by a person who said he knew Ye from their time together at a psychiatric facility and alerted police to the writings.


“The story focused on a transgender main character being bullied in school and other issues that [the acquaintance] believed were directly from Ye’s life and not indicative of fiction,” investigators wrote.

DING DING DING

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There’s no way in a police press release they would list a Nickname. This has to be about deadnaming .

What's a "nickname", exactly? That's an informal term.

There is a government name the government uses for official purposes, and there is are, not legally official, known aliases that a person uses for various purposes, including business, celebrity, marriage and divorce, gender identity change, and multilingualism.
If you pull your credit report you can see your detected aliases if you've ever used them on paperwork.