Teen sentenced to probation for mass shooting plot against Temple Israel in Canton

Adolf Goebbels
Published on Dec 19, 2023
The 13-year-old boy accused of planning a mass shooting at the Temple Israel synagogue in Canton has been sentenced to a year of probation, according to Stark County court records.

On Friday, the teen pleaded "true," the juvenile equivalent of guilty, to the misdemeanor counts of inducing panic and disorderly conduct. Stark County Family Court Judge Jim James suspended a 90-day sentence for the teen at the Multi-County Juvenile Attention Center, giving him a year of probation with the following conditions:

No unsupervised use of the intenet
Continue to undergo counseling with a licensed therapist
Read a book about Swiss diplomat Carl Lutz, credited with saving over 62,000 Jews during World War II. The teen is then ordered to write a book report to the juvenile probation department

A pre-trial hearing for the teen had been set for this Wednesday.

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