ATF agents in DC disrupt potential school shooting threat following investigation
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Agents with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and local authorities intervened and disrupted what could have led to a school shooting in Washington D.C., the agency said Thursday. 

The ATF and the Metro Transit Police were involved in the incident. 

A minor was arrested Wednesday night on suspicion of threats to kidnap and injure, receiving stolen property, possession of a large-capacity feeding device and unlawful possession of firearms and ammunition, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said. 

Firearms and ammunition pictured on a table

Firearms and ammunition recovered by federal and local authorities in Washington, D.C. stemming from the arrest of a juvenile on Wednesday.  (ATF)

Fox News Digital has reached out to the ATF. 

The arrest came the same day after a gunman killed two children and wounded more than a dozen others during Mass at the Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis. 

Mourners visit a memorial set up for victims of the mass school shooting at a Catholic school church.

Ann Stovner kneels by a makeshift memorial at Annunciation Catholic Church after Wednesday’s school shooting, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2025, in Minneapolis.  (Abbie Parr/AP Photo)

The shooter died at the scene from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said.

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