Barnstable District Court Judge Kristen A. Stone releases school shooter wannabe on miniscule $2,500 bail
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2025 3:30 pm
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FALMOUTH, MASSACHUSETTS - A smirking teen accused of plotting a school shooting has been released on a tiny bail, leaving parents in an upmarket Cape Cod neighborhood fuming at the judge and education bosses.
Ian Fotheringham, 18, sat before the Barnstable District Court on Tuesday after he was accused of plotting a school shooting in Falmouth.
Judge Kristen A. Stone then ruled to release him from custody on a measly $2,500 bail with electronic monitoring.
The teen appeared unbothered by the ruling, and is even said to have taunted the furious parents who were seated behind him.
'He turned around and laughed at us when he got his decision,' parent Dianna Wilson, who was among parents wearing the school color at the hearing, tearfully told Boston 25 News.
'He doesn't care. He's not afraid of what's going to happen, we're afraid because those are our kids those are our babies and we cant go to school with them everyday.'
The Falmouth teen was arrested on September 11 after Fotheringham allegedly displayed a pattern of alarming behavior, and he was charged with threatening to use a deadly weapon in a public building.
Falmouth Police were alerted to the teen after a report alleged Fotheringham said he wanted to shoot up a school, with no specification as to which school he would allegedly target, and had been refurbishing firearms in his room, the District Attorney's Office said in a release.