Maryland Cops’ Arrest Warrant: “Trans Man” Threatened Mass Shooting at High School

Proving yet again that “transgenders” are mentally ill, and in some cases dangerously so, Montgomery County, Maryland, police have arrested a “trans man” — a woman who “identifies” as a man — for plotting a mass school shooting.

An arrest warrant charges Andrea Ye, “whose preferred name is Alex Ye,” county cops said, with a threat of mass violence. Details are in a 129-page manifesto in which Ye said she wants to be famous.

Had she succeeded, she would have been the second “trans man” to carry out a school shooting. Last year, Audrey Hale — who went by “Aiden” — murdered three 9-year-old kids and three adults at The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, before police killed her.

Plans for Mass Murder

An informant known as Witness-One, the arrest warrant alleges, told police that Ye, 18, shared a manifesto about a fictional mass shooting at a high school. The witness “noted striking similarities between the main character (James Wang) and Ye,” the warrant says:

The story focused on a transgender main character being bullied in school and other issues that Witness-One believed were directly from Ye’s life and not indicative of fiction. Witness-One stated the book indicated that the shooting was to take place “the next day” saying “I will be doing it tomorrow.”

The witness called Baltimore County cops, who in turn contacted Rockville City Police. During a welfare check at Ye’s home, her father said he wasn’t concerned about Ye’s “mental status” because he sees visible behavioral changes that accompany her mental crises. Ye’s family refused a search and access to the manifesto. After that, Ye denied the witness access to the manifesto.

Montgomery County Police Department Sergeant Justin Saffar of the police threat assessment team had run into Ye before because of other threats: 

In December of 2022, Alex Ye was hospitalized for threatening to “shoot up a school,” homicidal, and suicidal ideations. He was reported to be released from the hospital in January 2023. In January 2023 it was determined that Ye was still preoccupied with self-harming, school shootings, and explosives. On January 31, 2023, the Montgomery County Crisis Center contacted Rockville City Police to assist clinicians with the service of an Emergency Evaluation Petition (EEP) of Ye. Ye was EEP’ed because he was again having homicidal and suicidal ideations. Crisis Center staff advised Alex made statements that he wanted to “shoot up” his school and that he had made statements referencing suicide by cop.

Ye eventually landed in Johns Hopkins Hospital’s Pediatric Unit, and “Ye also claimed to be Jesus Christ and was going to crucify himself.” Once discharged from Hopkins, she landed in a residential psych ward at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda.

Witness-One told Saffar that he and others thought that “Ye was consistently lying during treatment and despite saying he no longer had homicidal/suicidal thoughts, had alluded to other patients in private that he did.”

Saffar procured a search warrant for Ye’s Google history from March 1 through 5, and found a search for “gun range near me.” Saffar also found the manifesto, which contained a disclaimer: “This is not a threat of violence, nor does it represent the author’s beliefs.” 

“The document tells a story of a subject (James Wang) who plans a school shooting, but ultimately is taken into custody by law enforcement and goes to psychiatric treatment (mirroring the event that took place in 2023 for YE),” the arrest warrant reports.

Manifesto Excerpts

The warrant provides the following excerpts:

• I want to shoot up my school. I’ve been preparing for it for the past few months. As I sit in front of my dad’s gun case and stare at the sleek, black gun inside, all I can think about is my finger on the trigger, taking aim, and killing people. The gun is an AR-15 style semi-automatic rifle. … This gun is going to change lives tomorrow. 

• As I walk through the hallways, I cherry pick the classrooms that are the easiest targets. These ones are close to the entrance and have windows in the doors. I need to figure out how I’ll sneak the gun in. Maybe a duffel bag will work. I just hope security doesn’t stop me. 

• Though I enjoy the hunting aspect of guns, I have contemplated making bombs. The instructions to make them are surprisingly available online. I could build one with a pressure cooker and remote control car. Or I could make chemical weapons through mixing ammonia and bleach. The problem with that is that it would require a gas mask and bombs are time consuming to build.

• High school’s the best target. I’m the most familiar with the layout, I know where the doors with windows are, and it’s the most convenient to enter. Truthfully, I would rather become a serial killer than a mass shooter. Serial killers are romanticized a lot more. They get tons of love letters and Netflix documentaries about them. Mass shooters are brushed off unless they are truly unique or good-looking. 

• I pace around my room like an evil mastermind. I’ve put so much effort into this, it has to go well. I don’t bother posting any cheesy “Don’t go to school tomorrow if you value your life” posts for my hundred or so Instagram followers. The last thing I want is to get reported and get a SWAT team sent to my home. I picture the news stories. Deranged killer slays 17. There were no signs, says family and school. Twenty dead, fifteen injured at Rockville school. I plan on shooting myself once the police get there, so I will never be able to see the news stories. I am pretty scared….

• I don’t get why people hate school shooters so much. I’d be thrilled to be part of a mass shooting. It’d be the most exciting time of my life. I’d either help the shooter out or take a chance at being a hero and fight the shooter with my scrawny arms. I’d probably lose and die.

Ye also noted Hale’s mass shooting in Nashville, citing a Google search:

I type: School shootings. A whole Wikipedia page pops up dedicated to school shootings. I navigate to the Nashville school shooting. Oh s**t, I should make sure my door is locked or else they might take away my phone. I lock the door and flop down on my bed. The shooter was also trans. His name was Aiden Hale, though the news keep calling him Audrey. Makes me want to change my name legally before I commit a shooting to make sure the news doesn’t misgender me. He was suicidal before the shooting. Just like me. He, too, wanted to kill little kids. A rush of adrenaline fills my body. He’s so relatable.

After that material turned up, Ye again landed at Suburban Hospital.

Homicidal Ideation

On March 15, the FBI interviewed a counselor at Wootton High School, the putative scene of Ye’s threatened mass murder. The counselor told the FBI that Ye threatened to “bring a gun and shoot up the school,” the warrant alleges. The counselor also said Ye threatened to “shoot up” his elementary school. 

On March 21 Saffar executed a search and seizure warrant at Ye’s home and found that social media app Discord disabled his account for promoting violence. The Discord material included a reference to Sandy Hook school shooter Adam Lanza, the warrant says, adding that “Ye appears to be in a Discord Chat group with other subjects who are focused on glorifying school shootings.”

Another search warrant executed last week turned up more threats and other disturbing material on Instagram, including exchanges with Witness-One, the arrest warrant continues.

“I hate that I can’t be honest w my therapist bc I’d end up in the state hospital or jail,” Ye wrote on September 26. “But technically what I say counts as “terroristic threats” and that can be a felony”

“What do u wanna do?” Witness-One replied. “No judgement btw.”

Ye replied with emojis of a school, gun, bomb, and skeleton.

“Shoot up and bomb ur school,” replied Witness-One

Ye replied with a thumbs-up emoji. 

Witness-One asked Ye why she would do such a thing.

“Idk just seems fun,” Ye replied. “My homicidal ideation has been getting worse lately to the point I might act on it eventually.”

Trans Violence

Ye’s arrest is no surprise. 

The arrest of “trans” criminals is increasingly common. A Wisconsin court recently convicted a “trans woman” who claims to be a vampire with raping a disabled girl. He is also charged with first-degree murder.

Early this month, Jason Lee Willie, who goes by Alexia, pleaded guilty to threatening crimes on social media. Like Ye, Willie referred to Nashville shooter Hale and threatened a mass shooting. He also vowed to bomb black churches and threatened to rape Christian girls. Willie’s goal: advance “transgender rights.”

In March, cops in Canada arrested a “trans woman” on child-porn charges. In July last year, federal agents charged “Stacie Marie” Laughton, a former New Hampshire legislator, on child-porn and exploitation charges.