EXCLUSIVE: Transgender Student Plotted Waukesha School Shooting

EXCLUSIVE: A transgender 13-year-old was arrested and expelled from Les Paul Middle School in Waukesha, Wis. last year for plotting a school shooting eerily similar to that committed by a biological male who identified as a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday.

The student, a girl who identifies as a boy, sent texts and Discord messages to other Les Paul students that “referenced a hit list and history repeating itself related to the Columbine High School shooting.”

According to a notice of expulsion proceedings obtained by “The Dan O’Donnell Show,” the suspect told fellow students for months that she had access to a gun and “hundreds of rounds” of ammunition. In one chilling message on October 28, 2024, the suspect and a suspected accomplice (identified only as “Student A”) “agreed to create a hit list the following day.”

Three days later, on Halloween, Student A posted a TikTok video in which the suspect “wore a long black trench coat, a black shirt with a red logo on it, sunglasses and had changed her hair color to blond” in what concerned classmates told a school resource officer reminded them of the outfit worn by the Columbine shooters.

In that video, the suspect made multiple references to guns and “said that if they really needed something, she could have easy access to guns because she could find the code to the locked office somewhere in their house.”

Both students were apparently suspended over this video but continued with their plot to commit a mass shooting. On November 6, a school resource officer discovered more videos and pictures of the suspect making threats against classmates. When confronted, both students “admitted to having school shooter ideations.”

Five days later, the resource officer discovered a number of videos the two made at the Les Paul Middle School Library. In one of them, they harass a classmate and taunt him with pictures of fellow students while informing him that “those are actually our hit list” and that “no one is going to believe you” if he tells a teacher.

Waukesha Police conducted a forensic search of the suspect’s phones, which revealed searches for “school shooting targeted list,” “keeping a kill list,” “trans kill hit list” and “can 13-year-olds be arrested” among other alarming terms and phrases.

The student was arrested on suspicion of making terrorist threats and referred to juvenile authorities.It is unclear what, if anything, she was charged with and convicted of as juvenile records in Wisconsin are sealed.

The Waukesha School District initiated expulsion proceedings against the girl, and she was expelled from Les Paul Middle School at the end of last school year.

At no point did the Waukesha School District inform families of the ongoing threat the student posed, and multiple whistleblowers have come forward with fears that this was because she is transgender and district officials “were worried about backlash against the transgender community.”

One whistleblower came forward after the Minneapolis shooting because she was alarmed that a similar tragedy was only very nearly averted in Waukesha.

The Waukesha School District declined to comment on the story, saying in a statement to “The Dan O’Donnell Show” that “student safety is our number one priority in the Waukesha School District. If there is a safety concern, our district policies and procedures are followed to address the matter. We do not comment on any student disciplinary matters.”