This happened in 1997, about 18 months before the Columbine massacre.
My mom worked at LeSueur High School back in those days. She told me that a student named Corey had made a kill list of students and teachers he intended to kill. This was before Columbine or any shootings, so the school surprisingly took the threats seriously.
The school went into lock down mode. Corey showed up at school and an old cop, around retirement age, who had been waiting in the parking lot and followed the kid into the school. IIRC, the kid shot at the cop and missed and the cop wrestled him to the ground and arrested him.
I remember my mom always telling me this story, the day it happened, or almost happened, and I felt blessed that my hometown school had been spared. I was just telling my daughter about this story the other day and out of curiosity looked it up.
It was a long time ago, and my memory made me think it had happened 2 or 3 months before Columbine occurred. It more like a year and a half before Columbine happened, but the real date brought shivers down my spine---September 11.
Oh wow! That is very chilling indeed. Glad your school took it seriously.
I worked with a lady l, Amy (I don’t remember her last name) who was a hostage of the very first mass High School Hostage taking and minor/slight mass school shooting. She was a Junior in the 1992 Lindhurst High School Hostage and Shooting event. A very scary story. Yes indeed these are chilling and mind twisting and lasting events.
Back when Minnesota actually had some values. Up in the valley of the Jolly Green Giant.