Bx. teen arrested for threat

ALBANY — New York is joining forces with its neighbors in the battle against gun violence.

Gov. Cuomo and governors of Connecticut, New Jersey and Rhode Island announced the creation Thursday of the States for Gun Safety coalition to share resources and intelligence to curb gun trafficking and prevent dangerous individuals from purchasing guns.

“Today we are taking the next step in the evolution of state action,” Cuomo said during a conference call with the other governors, all of whom are Democrats.

Cuomo and his counterparts said the coalition was necessary because of the inability of the federal government to effectively deal with the issue of gun violence.

“This is a federal government that has gone backwards on this issue,” Cuomo said. “President Trump has pledged allegiance to the NRA.”

Under the plan, the four states will pool their data and intelligence sharing, including information on pending arrest warrants and orders of protection, to create a database that would be used to supplement the federal government’s background check database.

Cuomo indicated that information from New York’s mental health database — which was created as part of the state'’ SAFE Act to keep mentally ill people deemed a threat to themselves or others from purchasing guns — would be shared with the coalition partners. A BULLIED 15-year-old Bronx boy was arrested for threatening to shoot up his school on a social media app and trying to buy firearms online, officials said Thursday.

Members of the NYPD’s Computer Crimes Squad arrested the teen at his home in Fordham Manor Wednesday night — more than two months after he wrote to a group on his Kik app that he was sick of being bullied and was going to get a gun and “take care of things” at his school, sources said.

The teen attends the Bronx Center for Science and Mathematics, sources said.

Workers at Kik, the global chat platform based in Canada, learned of the threat and handed the information over to Homeland Security, which notified the NYPD.

When cops interviewed the teen, they found he had a bulletproof vest in his home.

He made several unsuccessful attempts to buy firearms online but no guns were found in his apartment, sources said.

The teen told investigators he was serious about killing his classmates because they made fun of him, according to sources.

The NYPD charged the teen with making terroristic threats.

He will be prosecuted in family court at a later date, officials said. His name was not disclosed.

Lorraine Martinez, 36, a social worker based in Morrisania, compared the NYPD’s quick response to the FBI’s mishandling of a tip about the alleged gunman in the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas in Parkland, Fla.

“The fact that it was that effective is actually good to know — that they’re jumping on it and not sitting on it,” she said.