16 Year Old Accused Of Plotting Attack On Indiana High School
April 24, 2008
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A 16-year-old boy is accused of plotting an attack on his high school, prosecutors said Thursday, alleging that he discussed plans by e-mail with another person to carry out simultaneous “Columbine-like mass murders” in two states on Sept. 11, 2008.
Authorities detained the teen Tuesday on an initial charge of intimidation, St. Joseph County prosecutor Michael Dvorak said Thursday. His office was preparing charges of conspiracy to commit murder after authorities found more than 100 knives at his home, Dvorak said.
Authorities also found several illegal snakes at his home in Mishawaka, about 10 miles east of South Bend, Dvorak said. The boy was being held Thursday at a juvenile detention center.
A school officer investigating an unrelated threat at Penn High School discovered Internet postings in which the teen discussed his support for the Columbine shooters, Dvorak said, a reference to the 1999 massacre at a suburban Denver high school in which two students killed 12 classmates and a teacher before committing suicide.
School officials questioned the teen about his postings and learned he had exchanged e-mails Sunday with an unidentified person in which they discussed conducting “Columbine-like mass murders” at the same time on Sept. 11 at Penn and another location, Dvorak said.
Teresa Carroll, spokeswoman for the Penn-Harris-Madison School Corp., said the other location was in Ohio.
Dvorak declined to give any information about the person the teen corresponded with or what the person’s intended target may have been.
The pair also wrote about researching how to obtain weapons and make explosive devices. The teenager, a freshman, asked the other person to help him obtain a TEC-DC9 9mm pistol, stating it would be “awesome” if he could use the same weapon used in the Columbine shootings, Dvorak said.
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