Mom bought son tactical gear and live ammo in support of his ‘violent expressions’ and desire to commit a mass shooting: Police

A Texas parent was allegedly helping her lad transportation retired a wide shooting astatine the mediate school helium attended, telling constabulary she supported his “violent expressions.”

According to an affidavit obtained by section CBS affiliate KENS, 33-year-old Ashley Pardo was arrested connected Monday aft authorities were notified of alleged threats made by her mediate school-aged son, who constabulary accidental had “a fascination with past wide shooters.” The affidavit stated that a relative, identified successful the San Antonio Express-News arsenic the boy’s grandmother, called the San Antonio Police Department’s behavioral menace squad aft uncovering a loaded firearm and pistol magazines successful the location wherever she and the lad lived.

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The grandma besides told detectives that earlier Pardo came to the location to prime up her lad for schoolhouse connected Monday, helium told her helium was “going to beryllium famous” and made a notation to “14 words,” an evident motion to a popular achromatic supremacist slogan.

The Express-News besides reported that the grandma recovered an improvised explosive instrumentality successful the boy’s country that had a sanction written connected it, arsenic if the instrumentality was meant to people that person. She besides reportedly recovered much achromatic supremacist materials.

According to the affidavit, the grandma told detectives that she had erstwhile caught her grandson hitting a unrecorded slug with a hammer, seemingly hoping it would explode. She stopped him and asked him wherever helium got the bullet, and helium reportedly replied that his parent gave it to him.

KENS reported that constabulary had archetypal been made alert of the boy’s disturbing interests successful January, erstwhile helium was questioned astir “concerning drawings” helium made of Rhodes Middle School that allegedly featured a muzzle flash and a representation of a “suicide route.” He was suspended successful April aft helium was reportedly discovered searching for the New Zealand mosque shootings from 2019 connected his school-issued computer.

The lad was sent to an alternate schoolhouse and began surviving with his grandma owed to his erratic behavior. The affidavit stated that Rhodes Middle School officials worked retired a information program to hole for the boy’s instrumentality to the school.

When Pardo was questioned by detectives, the affidavit stated that she was not conscionable unconcerned with her son’s fascination with unit — she allegedly “expressed to the schoolhouse her support” for her son’s “violent expressions and drawings.” Pardo besides reportedly told detectives that she had been buying her lad tactical cogwheel and ammunition successful speech for babysitting his younger siblings.

Investigators wrote successful the affidavit, “[Pardo’s] refusal to spot [her son’s] concerning behaviour and her assistance successful gathering items for him that person been recovered to person been utilized successful different acts of wide targeted violence, it is believed she is facilitating [her son’s] tendency to transportation retired his threats.”

Rhodes Middle School confirmed successful a missive to the students’ families that the lad had besides been detained and faces a complaint of terrorism.

Pardo was charged with aiding successful the committee of coercion and taken into custody connected Monday. She posted $75,000 enslaved and was released. Her adjacent tribunal proceeding is scheduled for July 17.