Auburn Police Department

Auburn Police Headquarters, Auburn, Mass. (file photo)

(Megan Bard I MassLive.com)

AUBURN - A 12-year-old boy allegedly told classmates last month he was trying to buy guns off the "deep web" to shoot up Auburn Middle School.



According to a search warrant on file in Worcester Central District Court, the juvenile may be charged after police interviewed him at the middle school on Friday, Feb. 26.



Classmates told the school resource officer that day that the boy, now 13, was telling kids he was using the "dark web" to obtain credit card numbers to buy guns and shoot up the school.



The boy was interviewed by an assistant principal and told him he wanted to "slit the throat" of one student and take "at least two bullets to kill" another, Auburn Police Officer James Lyman wrote in the search warrant.



The boy said he targeted one student because he was black and another, who is special needs, because he is "annoying." A third he allegedly said he wanted to kill because "his rat tail was personally offensive."



The assistant principal found a search for the dark web on the boy's school-issued iPad. School officials also searched the boy's locker, but did not find any weapons. They did find what the boy called his "fake crystal meth," a clear plastic bag with white crystals, which later tested negative for drugs.



The search warrant filed on March 14 seeks permission to get digital files off of the boy's cell phone, which witnesses said he was using to access the dark web.



In a written statement by the boy filed in court, he said he "made cruel jokes about people he hates." He also called his "joke" about shooting another students twice "inappropriate" and "evil."



The boy could face a charge of disturbing a school assembly. According to court files, the school suspended the boy for 10 days and set an expulsion hearing.



Auburn Police Chief Andrew J. Sluckis Jr. said no one has been arrested in the case. He said the investigation is ongoing and declined to comment further since the subject of the case is a juvenile.

Wednesday night Auburn police posted to their Facebook page saying the boy would be undergoing a probable cause hearing in front of a judge in juvenile court.

"No weapon was ever accessed or otherwise obtained by the juvenile," police noted.