Overview

• Prosecutors relied on a 129-page document in which Ye depicted a character planning a school shooting and chronicled internet searches on past attacks and gun ranges.
• The investigation began after a fellow patient at an inpatient psychiatric facility alerted Baltimore-area police to Ye’s writings.
• Court records reveal Ye was hospitalized in December 2022 for threatening to “shoot up a school” and expressing suicidal and homicidal thoughts.
• A Montgomery County judge found Ye guilty in January of threatening to commit mass violence following a two-day bench trial.
• Probation terms mandate biweekly court appearances, ongoing psychological treatment and bans on entering two local schools and using Discord.