Oh you have GOT to be fucking shitting me?
He's letting it go? WTF?
Seriously, William needs to go fuck off- this isn't the place for pre-teens.
They are Literaly biologically incapable of the same decision making as an Adult. OL needs to pick the Runt up drop him off somewhere and get back to planing this shit. Frankly, it doesn't MATTER if Queen Bee is behind this or not.
The people will need something to rally around- an attack like this will incite national anger to insane levels and they will need someone to blame, an enemy to crush and retribution to settle down.
Otherwise, shit will just fall to peices.
If they start doing an investigation and it ends up leading nowhere, or into something the population cannot sink their teeth into shit is still going to happen.