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to kill 30 students and 2 school officials. there were two individual faculty members that were specific targets. officers found material in his room that could be used for making explosive devices. reporter: those materials included fuses, timers, shrapnel, accelerant and plastic tubing. it s always happening somewhere else. it s never going to be happening at your school, your child s school, your city. it s terrifying. reporter: jared cano has an extensive criminal record and he was removed from school over a year and a half ago after what school administrators called inappropriate behavior. under his favorite quotations his facebook page he listed lessons not learned in blood are soon forgotten. the identity of the tipster who alerted police to the plot has been kept confidential, but that individual was praised as a hero. thank you, t.j. and friends are speaking up and they were telling our affifiate in tampa last night that cano had trouble controlling his anger. th
say they not only found bomb-making materials but a detailed journal outlining that school bomb plot. so scary. the 17-year-old suspect is behind bars. as prosecutors decide now whether he ll be charged as an adult. abc s yunji de nies is in tampa with the very latest. reporter: police say jared cano detailed his murder plot down to the minute in a manifesto, mapping out where he would plant a series of bombs. his target 30 students and 2 administrators. we were probably able to thwart a potentially catastrophic event, the likes of which the city of tampa have not seen, and hopefully never will. reporter: working off a telephonontip, investigators headed to cano s home. inside they found all the elements to make pipe bombs, shrapnel, plastic tubing, accelerants, fuses and timers. the 17-year-old s facebook page boasts pictures of him with machetes, malt liquor and marijuana. last friday he wrote, a crazy
rick: more now on our fox news alert, police in tampa, florida, foiling what could have been a catastrophic plot to blow up a high school on the first day of classes. the police chief in tampa, chief jane caster is on the phone joining us now. tell us what you found at this young boy s house. well, we received information that he intended to target a couple of school administrators and students the first day of school, went to his house, got permission to search, and our bomb team found material used to construct pipe bombs, including fuel source, shrapnel, plastic tubing and timing and fusing devices. rick: who tipped you off, who gave you the information to go there? well, we re keeping the source confidential right now, but it was an