School Violence and Threats

Prosecutors in Seminole County, Florida released patrol‑car video showing 14‑year‑old Lois Olivios Lippert and 15‑year‑old Isabelle Aurelia Valdez laughing about their mugshots and joking about becoming a "lesbian couple in jail" after their Jan. 22 arrests in an alleged school murder plot. According to court documents, the Lake Brantley High School students are accused of planning a "blood ritual" killing of a male classmate in a school restroom, with Valdez allegedly claiming she believed murdering him would create a bond with Sandy Hook shooter Adam Lanza that could "resurrect him from the dead." Investigators say Discord messages show Valdez telling Lippert she would perform a ritual for Lanza, that "it’s gonna be over by tomorrow," and asking her to bring latex gloves, while the pair discussed sharpening and testing a knife in a restroom before ambushing the victim, stabbing him in the stomach or cutting his throat, leaving flowers and then smoking a cigarette. Authorities also allege Lippert drew images of the victim dead or hanging next to Valdez, including sexually explicit depictions, and say the plot was thwarted only because another student reported what they had heard to school officials and police. At a recent bond hearing, Assistant State Attorney Domenick Leo argued there were "no conditions of release reasonably sufficient" to protect the community, and the judge agreed, ordering both teens — who have been charged as adults — held without bond while the case proceeds.