ATF agents in DC disrupt potential school shooting threat following investigation

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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