An Okeechobee County man is charged with written threats to kill after being searched throughout a daily visitors cease final week.Henry Joseph Horton IV, 19, was driving in Jupiter on Sept. 27 close to Indiantown Street and Cortana Boulevard when an officer pulled him over for a headlight being out.The visitors cease occurred round 9:30 p.m. The officer had a data verify finished, which got here again clear, but the officer requested if Horton would consent to a search. The officer discovered a number of handwritten notes detailing plans to “kill everybody at OHS with my weapons.” Horton graduated from Okeechobee Excessive Faculty in Might 2022. Horton instructed one other responding officer that he was planning on killing an administrator, together with 14 different folks on his twenty second birthday in January 2026.A glass water pipe with burnt residue and three fillet knives have been additionally discovered.In additional investigation, detectives discovered notes on his cellphone and on his Discord account concerning planning mass homicide assaults in a number of states, the elements wanted to make a bomb, and plans to kill his stepmother.Horton was Baker Acted in accordance with a Florida regulation that provides people emergency providers and short-term detention for as much as 72 hours for a psychological well being examination.He was taken to JFK North.When a Palm Seashore County Sheriff’s Workplace detective requested Horton why he was in Palm Seashore County, he mentioned that he was heading to El Rey Jesus Church in Miami to do a reconnaissance mission for an assault he was planning there. He additionally claimed to do recon missions at Marjory Stoneman Douglas Excessive Faculty and a church close to there. Officers confirmed in court docket paperwork that Horton’s automotive was noticed close to Parkland on Sept. 11.Horton said he had comparable ideas prior to now when he lived in Virginia and voluntarily admitted himself into medical services there. Horton instructed officers he needed to do one thing violent resulting from his stepmother kicking him out of the home in Virginia in April.
An Okeechobee County man is charged with written threats to kill after being searched throughout a daily visitors cease final week.
Henry Joseph Horton IV, 19, was driving in Jupiter on Sept. 27 close to Indiantown Street and Cortana Boulevard when an officer pulled him over for a headlight being out.
The visitors cease occurred round 9:30 p.m. The officer had a data verify finished, which got here again clear, but the officer requested if Horton would consent to a search.
The officer discovered a number of handwritten notes detailing plans to “kill everybody at OHS with my weapons.” Horton graduated from Okeechobee Excessive Faculty in Might 2022. Horton instructed one other responding officer that he was planning on killing an administrator, together with 14 different folks on his twenty second birthday in January 2026.
A glass water pipe with burnt residue and three fillet knives have been additionally discovered.
In additional investigation, detectives discovered notes on his cellphone and on his Discord account concerning planning mass homicide assaults in a number of states, the elements wanted to make a bomb, and plans to kill his stepmother.
Horton was Baker Acted in accordance with a Florida regulation that provides people emergency providers and short-term detention for as much as 72 hours for a psychological well being examination.
He was taken to JFK North.
When a Palm Seashore County Sheriff’s Workplace detective requested Horton why he was in Palm Seashore County, he mentioned that he was heading to El Rey Jesus Church in Miami to do a reconnaissance mission for an assault he was planning there.
He additionally claimed to do recon missions at Marjory Stoneman Douglas Excessive Faculty and a church close to there. Officers confirmed in court docket paperwork that Horton’s automotive was noticed close to Parkland on Sept. 11.
Horton said he had comparable ideas prior to now when he lived in Virginia and voluntarily admitted himself into medical services there. Horton instructed officers he needed to do one thing violent resulting from his stepmother kicking him out of the home in Virginia in April.
