California student arrested with two assault rifles and 90 magazines after security guard overhears shooting threat

A pair of assault rifles, nearly 100-high-capacity magazines and two handguns were discovered in the home of a 17-year-old who was arrested for threatening to open fire at his school in California.

Security guard Marino Chavez reported the teenager to police after he overheard him saying that he was “going to shoot up the school sometime in the next three weeks.”

He made the comments at the El Camino High School in Whittier, two days after 17 people were killed when a gunman opened fire on a Florida high school.

Mr Chavez said when he asked the student about the threat, he confirmed he made it but said he was just kidding and did not mean it.

He had apparently been angry a teacher told him he could not wear headphones in the classroom, the guard said.

“I’m not a hero. I was just doing my job,” Mr Chavez told a press conference.

Source: Yahoo News