A Texas mother with purple hair and a history of violent behavior is facing explosive new charges after allegedly arming her 13-year-old son in a foiled plot to unleash mass violence at his San Antonio middle school.
Ashley Pardo, 33, was arrested on Friday on a new charge of endangering a child with criminal negligence, just months after being accused of aiding in the commission of terrorism – the first person in Bexar County history to face such a charge.
According to court documents, Pardo purchased ammunition, tactical gear, and loaded magazines for her son, who authorities say drew chilling maps of his school marked ‘suicide route,’ idolized white supremacist mass shooters, and planned to carry out a massacre at Rhodes Middle School.
According to the arrest affidavit, Pardo allegedly gave her son the tactical equipment ‘in exchange for babysitting his siblings’.