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Police: Florida Fifth-Graders Plotted to Kill Classmate

Students, ages 10 and 11, accused of scheming to launch attack in a “secret hideout at the garden” after school.

Two fifth-graders at an elementary school in Tallahassee have been arrested after allegedly plotting to kill one of their classmates, WCTV reports. The unnamed students, ages 10 and 11, allegedly plotted to kill their 11-year-old classmate at Roberts Elementary School on Dec. 14, and one of them was reportedly found with supplies including a pocket knife, pliers, and gloves, according to police. Police said both students denied plotting to kill the victim. According to WCTV, the victim told a staff member he knew the suspects were going to kill him because other students had told him earlier that day, and he had also been bullied recently. He also said he caught wind of the alleged plot after being told to meet a classmate in a “secret hideout at the garden” after school, where he heard something was being planned.

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