{"id":1404707,"date":"2026-02-07T04:11:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T09:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thenewsherald.com\/?p=1404707&preview=true&preview_id=1404707"},"modified":"2026-02-07T04:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T09:12:15","slug":"teen-accused-in-seminole-school-murder-plot-was-obsessed-with-sandy-hook-shooter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thenewsherald.com\/2026\/02\/07\/teen-accused-in-seminole-school-murder-plot-was-obsessed-with-sandy-hook-shooter\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen accused in Florida school murder plot was obsessed with Sandy Hook shooter"},"content":{"rendered":"

A teenage girl accused of plotting to kill a classmate at a her Florida high school wanted to conduct a \u201cblood ritual\u201d to \u201creunite\u201d with the dead Sandy Hook mass shooter, newly unredacted records show.<\/p>\n

Isabelle Valdez, 15, and Lois Lippert, 14, have been charged as adults with attempted first-degree premeditated murder, court records filed Tuesday show. The girls, whom a police report described as best friends, were arrested Jan. 23. Police offered few details at the time except that a knife had been found at the Altamonte Springs school.<\/p>\n

Valdez told Lake Brantley High School and law enforcement officials she sometimes heard voices telling her to hurt others. In the past, one of these supposed voices was Adam Lanza, the mass shooter who in 2012 killed over two dozen people at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, according to her arrest report.<\/p>\n

She said she no longer heard Lanza\u2019s voice, but other voices told her she could hear his voice again if she killed another student that reminded her of Lanza. Valdez planned to kill him since September and for three months would \u201cstalk\u201d him around campus, taking photos of him without his knowledge, the report said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey told me that Adam would come back to speak to me if I did it for him. Adam Lanza wanted it,\u201d Valdez wrote in a note to her parents included in the report. \u201cI think it\u2019s a fair and beautiful scene of devotion on my behalf. I love Adam Lanza. We\u2019re soulmates, just waiting to be reunited once more.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the day prior to Valdez\u2019s arrest, Altamonte Springs police received an anonymous tip that someone later identified as Valdez intended to kill a classmate on the following day. Law enforcement, including the FBI, had already been looking into Valdez as part of an investigation into multiple \u201cswatting calls\u201d recently made to the school and had confiscated her phone, the report said.<\/p>\n

An assistant principal called Valdez into her office Jan. 23, where the girl talked about her plan. She then spoke with law enforcement and explained she had planned to kill the classmate after the school\u2019s second period by pulling him into a bathroom and stabbing him. She also said she planned to lay photos of him on his body as part of a \u201cblood ritual\u201d that would show her devotion to Lanza, according to the report.<\/p>\n

The girl said she had intended to write a manifesto but was then called into the office.<\/p>\n