A 17-year-old boy who reportedly is the cousin of the Uvalde, Texas, teenage school shooter — who murdered 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary in May 2022 — was arrested in San Antonio after his mother reported he was planning to shoot up an elementary school.

Court documents state that the mother — who said her son was on probation and was intoxicated when he issued the threats — said her son was planning to “do the same thing” as the Uvalde school shooter and that she overheard him on the phone trying to buy an AR-15 illegally, Fox 29 reported.

Court documents also state the teenager had boasted to his sister of what he would do to the school. The sister told authorities that her brother was riding in the car with her and threatened to shoot her in the head and “shoot the school.” She said she believed her brother would carry out his threats. The family lives near an elementary school.

Edgewood Independent School District SD released this statement:

Edgewood ISD has been made aware a teenager is now in police custody accused of making a threat against a school on the city’s west side. Edgewood ISD is committed to the safety and security of all students, faculty, and staff. Each campus has an assigned Safety Officer. We encourage everyone to report any suspicious activity; if you see something, say something.

The cousin was booked into the Bexar County Jail on Monday afternoon.

The fallout from the Robb Elementary shooting included the Uvalde school board voting to fire police chief Pete Arredondo and the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District recommending that Arredondo be fired.

Details on the police response to the shooting found that roughly 400 law enforcement officers responded to the scene of the shooting, but the shooter remained in the classroom for 77 minutes before officers breached the door and killed him.

Footage of the school’s hallway showed officers standing outside the classroom for over an hour while the shooter was still in the classroom with the victims, some of whom were still alive and calling 911 for help.

Ryan Saavedra contributed to this article.

Famed film director William Friedkin, who won an Oscar for “The French Connection” and directed such exceptional films as “The Exorcist,” “Rules of Engagement,” and “Sorcerer,” has died at the age of 87.

Born in Chicago in 1935, Friedkin’s parents were Jewish emigrants from Ukraine who fled with his grandparents after a violent anti-Semitic pogrom in 1903. After graduating from high school at 16 (Friedkin admitted he was not a good student), he started working in the mail room at WGN-TV.

At 18, he was directing live television shows and documentaries, including “The People vs. Paul Crump,” which won an award at the San Francisco International Film Festival.

Friedkin directed one of the last episodes of “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour” titled “Off Season” in 1965. He moved to Hollywood in 1965 and started his career directing feature films with “Good Times,” starring Sonny and Cher.

After directing several other films, Friedkin broke out with “The French Connection” in 1971. It won five Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director for Friedkin, and Best Actor for Gene Hackman.

Friedkin spoke of how Costa-Gavras’ film “Z” influenced how he made “The French Connection”:

After I saw “Z,” I realized how I could shoot The French Connection. Because he shot “Z” like a documentary. It was a fiction film but it was made like it was actually happening, like the camera didn’t know what was gonna happen next. And that is an induced technique. It looks like he happened upon the scene and captured what was going on as you do in a documentary. My first films were documentaries, too. So I understood what he was doing but I never thought you could do that in a feature at that time until I saw “Z.”

Two years later, Friedkin directed “The Exorcist,” which won 10 Oscar nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director, winning for Best Screenplay and Best Sound.

Friedkin later directed 1977’s “Sorcerer,” which he considered his best film. Films like “The Brink’s Job” and “Cruising,” followed before he had a heart attack in 1981.

In 1985, Friedkin’s “To Live and Die in LA” was released and praised by critics; in 1995 he directed one of his favorite films, “Jade.” In 2000, he directed “Rules of Engagement,” starring Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel Jackson — an astonishingly conservative film considering it came out of Hollywood — regarding the U.S. military.

Among his favorite films, Friedkin said he liked “Alien,” “Blade Runner,” and “Bullitt,” and said he truly respected Steve McQueen as an actor, saying he was a very “underrated but sensational American film actor.”

Friedkin was married four times; to actress Jeanne Moreau, actress Lesley Anne-Down, news anchor Kelly Lange, and finally former Paramount Pictures head Sherry Lansing, to whom he was married at the time of his death.