Would-Be Wootton Mass Shooter Found Guilty of Threat of Mass Violence

[Anonymous]

First sentence was unnecessary. Did you know him?

[Anonymous]

Wow this is interesting. A female mass shooter is basically unheard of...but this one transitioned to male. Super interesting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow this is interesting. A female mass shooter is basically unheard of...but this one transitioned to male. Super interesting.

Hasn't transitioned. Prefers Alex/he/him. Also thinks they're God. Audrey Hale. Natalie Rupnow. Not unheard of.

[Anonymous]

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There is currently a documented case of a troubled Black student with mental health issues who was pushed into the alternative learning, suspension and expulsion cycle I described that Alex Ye skirted: When Alexis Jones’s son, Jailyn, faced bullying issues at Clarksburg High School and made threats that got him suspended, his mother BEGGED MCPS to let him remain virtual so he would no longer be targeted by his peers at school. She was instead told that Jailyn HAD to report to Northwest and that online school was not an option.

You are leaving out the part where Jones had access to a weapon and brought a loaded gun to school.

No part of me wants to excuse the threats that Ye made, but there is a material difference between a kid who admits homicidal thoughts to a counselor, and a kid who brings a loaded gun into an MCPS classroom.

Uh, wouldn’t Jailyn bringing a gun to his previous school due to unaddressed bullying give MORE reason for MCPS to allow Jailyn to remain virtual than not?

MCPS refused the ask because he was Black, low-income and his mother lacked a powerful attorney to force MCPS to make it happen, unlike Alex Ye.

Or...totally different scenarios resulted in different disciplinary actions. Jones had access to weapons and ammunition. That's a HUGE difference between him and Ye, who was already in treatment and who did not have access to weapons. It's just flat-out not the same thing and bringing up Jones without mentioning that he brought a loaded gun to school is wildly irresponsible.

You have failed to substantiate why Jailyn bringing the gun to school justifies MCPS’s decision to not let him continue his education online rather than continuing in person at Northwest with the same bullies he clashed with at Clarksburg?

Furthermore, the “treatment” Alex Ye was receiving was CLEARLY either inadequate or merely a ruse to get him out of hot water after he made his threats because Ye went on to write his manifesto despite this treatment.

Which proves my original point: wealthy, privileged, non-Black or Hispanic families can buy or legalese their kids out of consequences. The only people who argue otherwise are privileged white people who don’t want to concede the truth out loud.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Has anyone noted where this student went to middle school?

Frost

Thank you.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So, will they get prison for life?

No, nor should he. Ye was a minor when he wrote the "manifesto" and was already in treatment for what appears to be pretty significant mental illness. With time and treatment, and given that no acts of violence were actually committed, there is a good chance he can be a functioning member of our community again.

In a lot of ways, this is a best case scenario. From the reporting, it seems Ye was already in a residential therapeutic setting when the "book" was discovered, and had disclosed the plans to a HS counselor.

So here we have a young person essentially asking for help, school officials correctly identifying a real threat and taking action, and parents willing to fight for residential placement. Not to mention a lack of readily available weapons.

Think about the school shootings that did happen, all of the times school authorities brushed off a threat, or parents resisted treatment, or kept firearms in the home.

I know this is scary, but it's actually kind of a model case for what happens when the system works.

This only did not become a big news story since the parents don't own guns. I can imagine what would have happened if they did. This person needs to be in a psych facility and monitored and hopefully will not acquire a gun ever.

The part that's NOT being reported on in the press, is the extent to which Alex's parents used their wealth, privilege and the medical system to shield their child from the consequences of their dangerous behavior, allowing them to continue school through virtual school rather than forcing them to go to an alternative school or facing expulsion, as certainly would have been the case if they were lower income and Black or Hispanic. MCPS was complicit in this.

Virtual school is an alternative school, moron.

[Anonymous]

https://mocoshow.com/2025/05/28/rockville-teen-sentenced-following-2024-threat-to-shoot-up-school/

In the Montgomery County Circuit Court in Maryland, Judge Jill Cummins sentenced defendant Alex Ye to ten years in prison for threatening to “shoot up” Wootton High School in Rockville in 2024. All but 12 months of the sentence were suspended, and upon release, Ye is to serve five years of supervised probation.

Ye waived credit for the nearly 14 months he has already served since his arrest. (So the 12-month sentence begins now.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://mocoshow.com/2025/05/28/rockville-teen-sentenced-following-2024-threat-to-shoot-up-school/

In the Montgomery County Circuit Court in Maryland, Judge Jill Cummins sentenced defendant Alex Ye to ten years in prison for threatening to “shoot up” Wootton High School in Rockville in 2024. All but 12 months of the sentence were suspended, and upon release, Ye is to serve five years of supervised probation.

Ye waived credit for the nearly 14 months he has already served since his arrest. (So the 12-month sentence begins now.)

Not a surprise when his parents had money to fix it.

[Anonymous]

I don’t understand what crime he was found guilty of committing. He wrote a manifesto, shared it with another patient who was not a target and shared homicidal ideation with doctors. Grounds for involuntary psychiatric commitment yes but criminal prosecution and prison time?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:https://mocoshow.com/2025/05/28/rockville-teen-sentenced-following-2024-threat-to-shoot-up-school/

In the Montgomery County Circuit Court in Maryland, Judge Jill Cummins sentenced defendant Alex Ye to ten years in prison for threatening to “shoot up” Wootton High School in Rockville in 2024. All but 12 months of the sentence were suspended, and upon release, Ye is to serve five years of supervised probation.

Ye waived credit for the nearly 14 months he has already served since his arrest. (So the 12-month sentence begins now.)

Not a surprise when his parents had money to fix it.

Yup. Ye’s parents’ wealth and privilege gave them protection that would not have been afforded if they were Black or Hispanic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://mocoshow.com/2025/05/28/rockville-teen-sentenced-following-2024-threat-to-shoot-up-school/

In the Montgomery County Circuit Court in Maryland, Judge Jill Cummins sentenced defendant Alex Ye to ten years in prison for threatening to “shoot up” Wootton High School in Rockville in 2024. All but 12 months of the sentence were suspended, and upon release, Ye is to serve five years of supervised probation.

Ye waived credit for the nearly 14 months he has already served since his arrest. (So the 12-month sentence begins now.)

Why waive credit for the time served? Or was that part of the deal? Because otherwise he's served his 12 months already

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://mocoshow.com/2025/05/28/rockville-teen-sentenced-following-2024-threat-to-shoot-up-school/

In the Montgomery County Circuit Court in Maryland, Judge Jill Cummins sentenced defendant Alex Ye to ten years in prison for threatening to “shoot up” Wootton High School in Rockville in 2024. All but 12 months of the sentence were suspended, and upon release, Ye is to serve five years of supervised probation.

Ye waived credit for the nearly 14 months he has already served since his arrest. (So the 12-month sentence begins now.)

Not a surprise when his parents had money to fix it.

Yup. Ye’s parents’ wealth and privilege gave them protection that would not have been afforded if they were Black or Hispanic.

Can you explain what you mean by this?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://mocoshow.com/2025/05/28/rockville-teen-sentenced-following-2024-threat-to-shoot-up-school/

In the Montgomery County Circuit Court in Maryland, Judge Jill Cummins sentenced defendant Alex Ye to ten years in prison for threatening to “shoot up” Wootton High School in Rockville in 2024. All but 12 months of the sentence were suspended, and upon release, Ye is to serve five years of supervised probation.

Ye waived credit for the nearly 14 months he has already served since his arrest. (So the 12-month sentence begins now.)

Not a surprise when his parents had money to fix it.

Yup. Ye’s parents’ wealth and privilege gave them protection that would not have been afforded if they were Black or Hispanic.

Can you explain what you mean by this?

No.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand what crime he was found guilty of committing. He wrote a manifesto, shared it with another patient who was not a target and shared homicidal ideation with doctors. Grounds for involuntary psychiatric commitment yes but criminal prosecution and prison time?

I mean, "intent to..." is definitely a crime, but it seems Ye's parents never had any firearms, and he never made any effort to obtain one. One thing I found interesting from the article is that the State was asking for TEN YEARS in a juvenile detention facility, which seems wildly out of proportion for what we know about how Maryland addresses youth crime, and also considering a crime did not exist because everyone in the story (parents, therapists, fellow patient) did the right thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://mocoshow.com/2025/05/28/rockville-teen-sentenced-following-2024-threat-to-shoot-up-school/

In the Montgomery County Circuit Court in Maryland, Judge Jill Cummins sentenced defendant Alex Ye to ten years in prison for threatening to “shoot up” Wootton High School in Rockville in 2024. All but 12 months of the sentence were suspended, and upon release, Ye is to serve five years of supervised probation.

Ye waived credit for the nearly 14 months he has already served since his arrest. (So the 12-month sentence begins now.)

Why waive credit for the time served? Or was that part of the deal? Because otherwise he's served his 12 months already

He seems very very ill, which is heartbreaking. I'm guessing the parents were able to intervene given his age and mental health, and chose for him to continue receiving treatment in a controlled environment.

I can't imagine being the parent of a kid whose mental health deteriorates this badly, and it's so fortunate that the worst didn't come to pass.