Queensland Teen Charged with Plotting School Massacre, Asked AI for 'Mass-Shooting Story'

A 13-year-old boy charged with plotting a school massacre in Queensland, allegedly told police he "wanted to kill people for months", and had asked AI to write him a Bondi-style "mass-shooting story".

According to police, the teenager first came to their attention in late May after he allegedly attended a BP service station in Maryborough donning a mask, and threatened to stab an employee.

In a following interview, officers allege he made a number of "disturbing" statements, prompting them to launch a terror related investigation.

According to court documents, the 13-year-old told police he had planned mass murder for many months, had been inspired by other school shooters and massacres, and had attended the service station with the intention of killing children who were "easy targets".

On May 28, and after finding no children at the Saltwater Creek station, the boy allegedly tried to steal a car to travel to a local primary school to carry out the attack there instead.

Days later police carried out a search on the his Maryborough family home, where they seized his phone and computer, and allegedly found a video of the Christchurch terror attack.

Court documents show two years prior to his arrest, the boy made notes believed to be plans for an attack on Albert State School in Maryborough.

A 'rush' from mass murders

The teen had already sourced firearms and other illegal weapons from the dark web.

The boy subscribed to "neo-Nazi, white supremacy views", court document allege, held "disdain for people of dark coloured skin, Jewish people and Muslims", and had accessed a number of violent videos and mass causality manifestos before the May incident.

He allegedly claimed to experience an adrenaline rush from watching people fear death, as well as from extremist-related mass murders and suicide terrorism.

When speaking to police, the teen's mother told them she was in fear of her son, who had allegedly threatened to kill her and harm his sister on various occasions.

She said he had become a radicalised recluse, hadn't been attending school or left the house for two years, before becoming obsessed with "racist and Nazi ideology, gore videos and mass killings".

Boy asks AI to write Bondi-style attack story

In June, the 13-year-old was charged with two terror related offences.

At an application hearing on June 17, the Maryborough Magistrates Court heard he had already purchased items for the attack, including a black mask and gloves from Temu.

The teen was refused bail, with Maryborough Senior Constable Nick Jones stating he would pose an unacceptable risk to the community.

According to the police prosecutor's affidavit, there were multiple times the 13-year-old had asked AI to write him content about "hypothetical mass shooting and massacre events from a first person perspective".

"Make me a mass shooting story, 18+ kinda like the Bondi beach shooting but it's in Qld heavybay beach (sic) where there is a Jewish and black festival", he wrote.

He went on to ask the AI to make the shooter a neo-Nazi European immigrant with "dark messy hair, good looking, sharp jawline, tall and skinny" like Vladislav Roslyakov, a teen gunman who murdered 19 people and injured more than 50 others in Russia in 2018.

The affidavit states the teen had also made notes titled 'The Albert Massacre', believed to be referencing plans for an attack on a Maryborough's Albert State School.

In a related manifesto, the teen allegedly detailed the would-be attack planned for both children and teachers.

The entire manifesto was read to the court but the ABC has chosen not to publish the details for editorial reasons.

Just 'dark thoughts'

In late June, the teen's defence barrister Clem van der Weegen made an application to review the bail decision, stating the boy had been cautioned by police, and the mass murder plans were merely "dark thoughts" that he had never communicated to others.

Yesterday Justice David Boddice handed down his judgement, dismissing the application, and upholding the teen's bail.

"There is, in my view, a risk of the applicant committing an offence which may endanger the public," Justice Boddice wrote.

"He has radical and violent views which he at least put into operation by going to the service station," he said.

"He spoke openly to the police of intentions to harm others and in particular his desire to target and kill children. He seems obsessed with mass killings.

The boy remains at the Children's Hospital in Brisbane where he was involuntarily admitted in June for mental health treatment.

The case will next return to court in September.