A mom is accused of buying ammunition and tactical gear for her son, who authorities say was planning ‘mass targeted violence’ at a Texas school

A Texas parent is accused of buying ammunition and tactical cogwheel for her son, who investigators accidental was readying “mass targeted violence” astatine a San Antonio school, according to an apprehension affidavit.

Ashley Pardo, 33, was arrested Monday and charged with aiding successful committee of terrorism. Authorities accidental she provided her lad worldly enactment and resources with the cognition they would beryllium utilized to program and transportation retired an attack. The alleged crippled placed Jeremiah Rhodes Middle School “in further fearfulness of superior bodily injury,” according to a Bexar County apprehension affidavit obtained by CNN affiliate KSAT.

Despite being contacted by section instrumentality enforcement, kid protective services and schoolhouse unit - and knowing astir her son’s tendency to “commit acts of wide violence” - Pardo told the schoolhouse she was not acrophobic astir his behavior, the affidavit says. Authorities accidental she purchased tactical gear, ammunition and supplies for her lad successful speech for babysitting his younger siblings. She “intentionally and knowingly aided” her son, the affidavit states.

“The Defendant’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 the [boy’s] tendency to transportation retired his threats,” authorities said successful the affidavit.

Pardo’s enslaved was acceptable astatine $75,000 and she was released from Bexar County Jail Tuesday aft posting bail, region records show. Her adjacent tribunal quality is acceptable for July 17. She has requested a court-appointed attorney.

CNN has reached retired to Pardo and the nationalist defender’s bureau for comment.

According to the affidavit, connected May 12, the lad went to schoolhouse “wearing a mask, camouflage overgarment and tactical pants,” past near soon afterwards. When authorities were incapable to find him, schoolhouse officials feared helium mightiness instrumentality to transportation retired an attack, the affidavit says. Extra information was enactment successful place, including deploying further constabulary officers and sweeping the field for imaginable devices, authorities said.

The pupil was aboriginal detained off-campus, the schoolhouse said successful a Monday missive to parents. CNN has reached retired to the San Antonio Police Department for much information.

“Please cognize we instrumentality each imaginable threats earnestly and enactment instantly to support everyone successful our care,” the school’s main said successful the letter. “We volition ever stay vigilant to guarantee our learning and moving situation is harmless and secure. Student information is simply a apical precedence astatine SAISD schools, and we privation to support families informed of situations arsenic soon arsenic we are able.”

The affidavit says connected Monday, the student’s grandma reported to San Antonio constabulary that she recovered troubling items successful her location successful her grandson’s bedroom. According to the affidavit, the grandma learned the erstwhile time that Pardo gave him ammunition. She told authorities Pardo had taken him to a section surplus store and bought him tactical cogwheel including magazines, a tactical vest susceptible of concealing ballistic plates, a tactical helmet and service clothing.

She besides recovered magazines loaded with unrecorded ammunition, on with a homemade explosive instrumentality made from a mortar-style firework, according to the affidavit. Written connected the instrumentality was “For Brenton Tarrant,” a achromatic supremacist who changeable and killed 51 radical astatine 2 mosques successful Christchurch, New Zealand successful 2019. Authorities said it besides included the operation “14 words” and aggregate “SS” symbols, each linked to achromatic supremacist ideology.

The boy’s grandma besides recovered a handwritten enactment with what appeared to beryllium the names of wide shooters and the fig of victims from each shooting, the affidavit said. On Monday morning, earlier going to school, helium told her helium was “going to beryllium famous” and referenced “14 words,” the affidavit said.

This was not the archetypal clip schoolhouse officials had been acrophobic with the boy’s behavior.

In January, schoolhouse unit recovered concerning drawings from the pupil that included a representation labeled “suicide route,” the school’s sanction written with a rifle, and respective timestamps, according to the affidavit. When questioned, the pupil “described a fascination with past wide shooters, including their manifestos,” the affidavit said.

About a period ago, the lad was suspended for utilizing a school-issued machine to probe the New Zealand mosque shootings, according to the affidavit.

“It has been expressed to the Defendant the concerns of her child’s look and tendency to perpetrate acts of wide violence,” the affidavit said astir Pardo. “The Defendant expressed to the schoolhouse her enactment of [her son’s] convulsive expressions and drawings and does not consciousness acrophobic for his behavior.”

The pupil attended an alternate schoolhouse successful April, according to the affidavit. When helium returned to Rhodes Middle School successful May, officials implemented a information program owed to ongoing concerns astir imaginable targeted violence, the affidavit states.

CNN has reached retired to the schoolhouse and the San Antonio Independent School District for comment.

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