New England Patriots Star Julian Edelman Possibly Prevented Another School Shooting

If you see something, SAY something. That’s what New England Patriots WR Julian Edelman did.

Edelman was recently visiting his now former teammate *sobs uncontrollably* Danny Amendola in Texas. While he was there, he received a message from someone, alerting him that someone else left a threatening message on one of his Instagram posts.

I’m actually amazed that he saw the DM in the first place. He’s a popular guy. (He has 1.7 million followers on Instagram.) He probably gets hundreds of DMs a day. He called his assistant, Shannen Moen, who looked through the comments and located the threatening message. It read, “I’m going to shoot my school up watch the news.”

She then called the police.

Moen called 911, and a police officer soon arrived. The officer saw the screen shot, then called her chief, who sent two detectives to Moen’s house. The detectives collected some information about the person who posted the threat. They then returned to their office, where they made an emergency records request for account information, which allowed them to determine the sender’s email and IP address, which was traced to Port Huron, Mich.

The detectives called police in Michigan, who immediately drove to the house where the threatening message originated. When the police arrived at the address, they found a 14-year-old boy, who, they said, admitted to posting the threat. They also found two rifles that belonged to his mother, according to Capt. Joseph Platzer of the Port Huron Police Department.

Platzer said the boy’s threat was aimed at the middle school that he attends in a nearby township. The boy was taken to a juvenile-detention center, where he remains. He was charged with making a false report of a threat of terrorism, a felony that is punishable by up to four years in jail.

Crazy, right?

Back in Boston, Moen said she is relieved a potential crisis was averted. “When I told Julian, he was in shock,” Moen said. “We’re very lucky the Boston cops were all over it, very lucky the Michigan cops were all over it.”

Edelman is very grateful to the individual who sent him the warning. He’s trying to get in contact with him to thank him.

“Thankfully, this kid said something,” Edelman said. “We’re going to send him something, a care package, just for his work. He’s the real hero.”

Good on Edelman for recognizing that, and thank GOODNESS he acted on it.

If you see something, SAY something. This is how it’s supposed to work.

h/t NYT