Sep. 19, 2025 By Bill Parry

A 16-year-old student at Benjamin Cardozo High School was criminally charged with gun possession and making terroristic threats for threatening to “shoot the school up” on social media, and brought a loaded gun to the Bayside campus on Thursday, according to the Queens District Attorney’s Office.

The sophomore from Springfield Gardens was arraigned Friday in Queens Supreme Court on a complaint charging him with two counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, criminal possession of a weapon on school grounds, making a terroristic threat and other related crimes. If convicted and granted youthful offender status, he faces up to 1 ⅓ to four years in prison.

According to the charges, on the morning of Thursday, Sept. 18, Meta, the parent compa

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