Bucks teen won’t fight charges in shooting-spree threat

The 14-year-old boy accused of threatening to go on a shooting spree at a Bucks County high school has been adjudicated delinquent after deciding not to contest his charges, the district attorney said Thursday.

The ninth grader was charged with terroristic threats and possession of a firearm by a minor after he was accused last month of threatening to go on a gun rampage at Council Rock High School South just days after the Dec. 14 shooting massacre at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn.

The boy chose "the equivalent of pleading guilty in an adult court," said District Attorney David Heckler.

The boy's disposition will be determined at a hearing scheduled for this month. He is being held at the county's Youth Detention Center.

His mother, Lizabeth Donohoe, 50, also remains in custody on charges of possession of a firearm, endangering the welfare of a child, and possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.

Police searching the boy's Richboro home Dec. 20 found numerous blade weapons, pellet guns, a replica AK-47 rifle, and two World War II-era pistols.

Heckler said Donohoe inherited the guns from her father.

"She allowed [her son] to have them in his room," Heckler said. He did not have ammunition for the 9mm handguns.

Council Rock South, with 2,200 students plus faculty and staff, was closed Dec. 21 so that it could be swept for weapons and explosives. Nothing was found.