The boys, ranging in age from 16 to 18, were arrested Thursday, the anniversary of the Columbine massacre, just hours before they planned to shoot fellow students and school employees, authorities said.
"What the resounding theme is: They were actually going to do this," Cherokee County Sheriff Steve Norman said.
The teens planned to wear black trench coats and disable the school's camera system before starting the attack between noon and 1 p.m. Thursday, Norman said. Sheriff's deputies found guns, ammunition, knives and coded messages in the bedroom of one suspect and documents about firearms and references to Armageddon in two suspects' school lockers.
Apparently, they had been plotting since the beginning of the school year. Norman said school officials began investigating Tuesday after learning a threatening message had been posted on MySpace.com.
"The message, it was brief, but it stated that there was going to be a shooting at the Riverton school and that people should wear bulletproof vests and flak jackets," Norman said.
It also discussed the significance of April 20 as Adolf Hitler's birthday and the anniversary of the 1999 Columbine High School attack in Colorado, in which two students wearing trench coats killed 13 people before committing suicide.
School officials identified the student who posted the message and talked to several of his friends, he said.
But Riverton school district Superintendent David Walters said the significance of the threat did not become clear until Wednesday night, after a woman in North Carolina who had chatted with one of the suspects on Myspace.com notified authorities there would be about a dozen potential victims, at least one of them a staff member.
Riverton student Michaela Ferneau said Friday she had heard she was one of the targets.
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N.J. Teens Charged Under Terrorism Law
WNBC-TV
6:04 p.m. EDT April 7, 2006
CAMDEN, N.J. - Four teenagers accused of plotting to kill about 25 people in a lunch-period massacre at Winslow Township High School were charged Thursday with terrorism, a crime no one has ever been convicted of in New Jersey.
Images: Teens Charged With Allegedly Planning School Massacre PlotThe boys, between the ages of 14 and 16, were arrested Wednesday after police heard about the alleged plot from administrators at the school, where three of the teens are students. Authorities did not release their names because of their ages.The boys initially were charged only with low-level crimes and were not eligible to be moved to adult court. Authorities said the teens planned to target students, and teachers and others.The terrorism charge and other charges added Thursday -- two counts each of conspiracy to attempt murder -- are serious enough that prosecutors could ask a judge to move the case from family court to adult criminal court, where the penalties could be much stiffer.Prosecutors have 30 days to consider whether to request moving the case; no decision on that was made by Thursday afternoon.The four boys -- including a 15-year-old from Hammonton whose arrest Wednesday night had not been announced -- appeared together in family court. Superior Court Judge Angelo DiCamillo ordered them held until the state Department of Human Services could complete thorough psychological and psychiatric evaluations.DiCamillo said the court counselors who had interviewed the teens Wednesday recommended they not be released to their parents' care until a full picture of their mental conditions could be learned.Public defenders for the teens argued that they should have been able to go home with their parents. "My client is rather frail and vulnerable," public defender Ruth Ann Mandell, who was representing a 14-year-old, told the judge. "No one was hurt in this case."Authorities said the boys did not have any weapons to carry out the alleged plot. But one law enforcement official who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the teens attempted to buy a handgun.DiCamillo on Thursday also disclosed that some of the teens charged have had brushes with the law in the past. Two of them were charged with fighting while they were still in elementary school; both cases were diverted out of the court system.The 14-year-old was charged Wednesday with grabbing a girl by the neck and threatening to kill her.The father of one of the 15-year-old boys said after the hearing Thursday that the charges were a mistake. "I think it's just kids hanging out together and having a little wild time, that's all," he said.State judiciary spokeswoman Winnie Comfort said no one in New Jersey has been convicted of terrorism, a charge lawmakers created four years ago in response to the Sept. 11 attacks. Under the statute, people convicted of the crime in adult court must be sentenced to at least 30 years in prison and are not eligible for parole for 30 years.Prison sentences that long would be far steeper than those meted out to three teenagers in another Camden County town, Oaklyn, after they pleaded guilty in a case in which they were caught with guns, ammunition and swords in 2003. Each of them received a prison sentence between four and 10 years.
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4.23.2006DD 3490
Brian here is the article from MSNBC.com
replyThanks, but I want to stress there are still 11 schools out there with similar plans.
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Updated: 9:16 a.m. ET April 21, 2006
RIVERTON, Kan. - Five teenage boys fully intended to go on a shooting spree at their high school but were stopped after one of them discussed the plot on a Web site, law enforcement and school officials said.
The boys, ranging in age from 16 to 18, were arrested Thursday, the anniversary of the Columbine massacre, just hours before they planned to shoot fellow students and school employees, authorities said.
“What the resounding theme is: They were actually going to do this,” Cherokee County Sheriff Steve Norman said.
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The teens planned to wear black trench coats and disable the school’s camera system before starting the attack between noon and 1 p.m. Thursday, Norman said. Sheriff’s deputies found guns, ammunition, knives and coded messages in the bedroom of one suspect and documents about firearms and references to Armageddon in two suspects’ school lockers.
Hitler, Columbine cited
Apparently, they had been plotting since the beginning of the school year. Norman said school officials began investigating Tuesday after learning a threatening message had been posted on MySpace.com.
“The message, it was brief, but it stated that there was going to be a shooting at the Riverton school and that people should wear bulletproof vests and flak jackets,” Norman said.
It also discussed the significance of April 20 as Adolf Hitler’s birthday and the anniversary of the 1999 Columbine High School attack in Colorado, in which two students wearing trench coats killed 13 people before committing suicide.
School officials identified the student who posted the message and talked to several of his friends, he said.
But Riverton school district Superintendent David Walters said the significance of the threat did not become clear until Wednesday night, after a woman in North Carolina who had chatted with one of the suspects on Myspace.com notified authorities there would be about a dozen potential victims, at least one of them a staff member.
Earlier comments taken as a joke
Riverton student Michaela Ferneau said Friday she had heard she was one of the targets.
Back in January, one of the teen suspects had talked about Columbine, but “we thought he was joking because he was always joking about stuff like that,” Ferneau told ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Friday.
“I guess I told on them, apparently, when I didn’t know I did,” she said. “It’s kind of scary to know that people from a little town like this would even try anything like that.”
Ferneau and other students described the teen as a class clown who was often in trouble with the teachers.
He was an “oddball,” student Trenton Berry told ABC. “Everybody picked on him and everything.”
Norman also mentioned bullying and said investigators had learned the suspects liked violent video games.
Four of the suspects were arrested at their homes Thursday; the fifth was taken into custody at the school.
Charges expected soon
The suspects, who were not immediately identified, were expected to appear in court Friday, when charges are likely to be announced, said Attorney General Phill Kline, whose office took over the prosecution at the request of the county attorney.
The four younger than 18 were being held Thursday at a juvenile detention center in Girard. The 18-year-old was in the Cherokee County Jail. No decision has been made on whether to charge the four juveniles as adults, Kline said.
Officials assured the community that the 270 or so students at Riverton High School were safe and school would continue as normal Friday.
MySpace.com — a social networking hub with more 72 million members — released a statement declining to discuss the case because of the investigation, adding that it has provided users with mechanisms to report inappropriate content.
Barbara Gibson, a 17-year-old junior at the high school, said her classmates didn’t seem too bothered by the threat.
“A lot of people just talked about it,” she said. “But there wasn’t much reaction.”
Riverton is a small community of about 600 people along what once was the famed Route 66 in southeast Kansas, near the Oklahoma and Missouri borders.
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4.23.2006
SCHOOL PLOT #26 Alaska Students Accused of Murder Plot
April 23, 2006, 7:02 AM EDT
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Police said a group of seventh-graders hatched an elaborate plan to cut off power and telephone service to their middle school, slay classmates and faculty with guns and knives, then escape from their small Alaska town.
The arrest Saturday of six students in North Pole, a town of 1,600 people about 14 miles southeast of Fairbanks, marks the nation's second breakup of an alleged Columbine-style school attack this week. Five Kansas teenagers suspected of planning a shooting rampage at their high school were arrested Thursday, the seventh anniversary of the massacre in suburban Colorado.
The Alaskan seventh-graders had been picked on by other students and wanted to seek revenge, Police Chief Paul Lindhag said. They also disliked staff and students, he said.
The students had planned to disable North Pole Middle School's power and telephone systems, allotting time to kill their victims and flee from town, Lindhag said.
A parent alerted police of rumors of an attack, Lindhag said. He would not elaborate on the case, or what kind of documented evidence led to the arrests.
"These are the ones who had major roles in this," Lindhag said. "All our information came through our interviews."
The students, who were being held at the Fairbanks Youth Facility, could face charges of first-degree conspiracy to commit murder, authorities said.
The North Pole boys, whose names were not released, were among 15 students at the school who were suspended after a parent tipped police Monday evening. A child told the parent that rumors were circulating about the alleged plot, which had been postponed from Monday until Tuesday, Lindhag said.
"We feel very thankful that a student felt they could talk to an adult, and very thankful that the adult had the wisdom to contact the North Pole Police Department," said Wayne Gerke, an assistant superintendent with the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District.
The suspended students were identified by officers working with a school safety official. Parents were advised to keep their children away from 500-student campus Tuesday. Lindhag said authorities don't believe all the suspended students were involved, but officials erred on the side of caution.
"There were a lot of rumors flying around," Lindhag said.
Locals are "shocked, saddened and heartbroken about whole situation," but area schools have policies to deal with such a crisis, Gerke said.
The other students remain suspended while the investigation continues, and police will have a presence at the school for the rest of the year, officials said.
In Riverton, Kan., school officials learned that a threatening message had been posted on the Internet, authorities said. The boys, ages 16 to 18, will stay in custody through the weekend while prosecutors decide whether to file charges, a judge ruled Saturday.
4.25.2006SCHOOL PLOT #3
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Brian
4.25.2006
Wash. Student Arrested in Shooting Plot
PUYALLUP, Wash. (AP) -- A 16-year-old student accused of plotting to shoot people at Rogers High School, then kill himself "to finally go out in a blaze of hatred and fury" was charged Monday with first-degree attempted assault, Pierce County authorities said.
Another student passed along word of the alleged plot to the school's ROTC commander, court papers said.
Investigators searched Brian Michael Evans' home Sunday and found two rifles, two handguns, ammunition, a homemade bomb and a CD copy of "The Anarchist Cookbook," which includes directions to make explosives, sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer said.
Sheriff's investigators believe the boy didn't plan to target specific people.
The boy wanted people to "feel his pain, and he wanted to be hated, not having earned respect in the past," Troyer said.
No one was injured.
In an unrelated case, Pierce County authorities on Monday also charged another 16-year-old in connection with an explosion at Orting Middle School in Orting.
In the Rogers' case, the school's ROTC commander was told by an ROTC student that he had received instant messages from an angry student outlining a plan to shoot people at the school this Wednesday, April 26, Juvenile Court charging papers said.
Deputies reviewed the instant messages that included the following statements, "To finally go out in a blaze of hatred and fury ... to wrongly hurt others for my own sick pleasure before ending it for myself."
Charging papers said the teen shared specifics of his plan with deputies when they arrived at his house, including plans to use bolt cutters to cut the locks on his stepfather's gun cabinet, which contained two rifles and two handguns.
The boy told authorities he planned to take a .22 caliber rifle and a handgun with 15 rounds because it was easy to conceal. He said he planned to "take people out and save the last round for himself," - only taking one magazine "because that is all that he needed," an affidavit filed with charging papers said.
The boy and his parents were cooperative during the search, Troyer said, adding that authorities also brought two computers out of the house.
Evans was taken into custody after the search and was being held in juvenile detention pending his next court appearance May 2.
"Its, of course, very troubling to us that we had a student of ours pose these kinds of threats," said Karen Hansen, Puyallup School District spokeswoman, adding the district was grateful for the actions of the student who passed along word of the alleged plot.
In the Orting case, according to Juvenile Court charging documents, Timothy David Knoll contacted police last Friday, telling them he was responsible for setting off a bomb made with a glass bottle, tape, bottle rockets and a flaming firework on April 18.
The boy "stated that he brought the device to the school in an attempt to gain recognition and intimidate another male student who had been dating the respondent's girlfriend," the court papers said.
Knoll was charged with third-degree malicious explosion of a substance.
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Brian
4.28.2006
Hi Brian: Also on Wednesday's newscast it came over that some High School in Westfield NJ was warned.
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Brian
DD3490 Another bad high school shooting dream...makes 3 this week...and I stress, this is just a dream...do not pull your kids from school. There is a religious cult, that I have been talking about for 6 months now, that's using very sad kills to their killing. 12 high schools right now may be the subject of a 'Columbine try school shooting' over the next several months. The first ones will be in the state of Kansas, Mitchell and Rec. maybe the first schools affected. Other states include New York and California, and I think all are high schools. I will do a remote viewing on this to see what the exact school names are.
Police: MySpace foils school shooting
Five teenagers arrested; alleged targets were popular students
Thursday, April 20, 2006; Posted: 6:12 p.m. EDT (22:12 GMT)
6.1.2006
Greetings,
Several middle schools in ORE have been getting bomb threats. HB were the initals of one school. The students were taken to another school while HB was searched. Nothing was found.
Karen
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Brian
6.23.2006
Aloha Brian:
Should this be added to your "proof" of school shootings?
Charly
Maui
Teen held after taking loaded rifle to school
A teen who authorities later said was distraught over a breakup brought a loaded rifle, a hunting knife and bottle rockets to his school on Thursday, leading almost 2,000 students to evacuate until he surrendered.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12974105/from/ET/
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Brian
Teen held after taking loaded rifle to school
Boy distraught over breakup hid weapon in guitar case, authorities say
NORTHAMPTON, Pa. - A teenager distraught over a breakup brought a loaded rifle, a hunting knife and bottle rockets to school Thursday, leading almost 2,000 students to evacuate until he surrendered, authorities said.The 18-year-old senior at Northampton Area Senior High School was taken to a psychiatric hospital for evaluation. He was expected to be charged with two misdemeanors, including bringing a weapon to school, police said.The student was discovered by a teacher as he sat with the weapons in an unused stairwell, smoking and playing music, officials said.He had used a guitar case to carry the .22-caliber rifle from his home, police said. Some of the other items were found in his backpack.“He has had a problem with his girlfriend. His girlfriend left him, and he was thinking of ending it all,” Police Detective Robert Lindenmoyer said.Lindenmoyer, the school principal and others talked to the student for 40 minutes before he agreed to surrender, the detective said.The teen, who had past disciplinary problems, told them he was not going to harm himself or anyone else, Superintendent Linda Firestone said.Students were evacuated to the school football field. A search of the building found no other weapons, and officials said classes would resume, but many students said they were going home for the day.“My mom was hyperventilating on the phone. She said to come home immediately,” said sophomore Ellie Berlin, 16. “You don’t know what’s in there. There could be a bomb.”The school, which does not have metal detectors, is about 50 miles north of Philadelphia.
10.10.2006
Student Fires Gun in Mo. Middle School
Oct 9, 10:04 PM EDTBy MARCUS KABEL
Associated Press Writer
JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) -- Fascinated by the Columbine bloodbath, a 13-year-old boy in a dark green trenchcoat and mask carried an assault rifle into his school Monday, pointed it at students and fired a shot into a ceiling before the weapon jammed, authorities said. No one was hurt.
"Please don't make me do this," he was quoted as telling administrators before police arrested him and thwarted what they called a "well thought-out plan" to terrorize his school.
Police said a note in the student's backpack indicated he had planted an explosive in the school, but no bombs were found.
Lt. Geoff Jones said the boy's motives were unclear. School officials said the student had no major disciplinary problems.
The seventh-grader, whose name was not immediately released, pointed the gun at two students inside Joplin Memorial Middle School but was confronted by an administrator who tried to talk him into putting the gun down, Jones said.
The boy refused and fired a shot into the ceiling of an entryway, police said. He tried to continue firing but the rifle jammed, according to Jones. The student then left the building.
"We don't believe he was trying to fire at administrators or students," Officer Curt Farmer said.
Officers arrested the teen behind a nearby building. Police described his weapon as a Mac-90, a replica of an AK-47 assault rifle.
Superintendent Jim Simpson said police told him the boy had a fascination with the Columbine High shooting that left 15 people dead near Littleton, Colo., in 1999.
The student was wearing a trench coat - like the student gunmen at Columbine - and had a T-shirt over his head with eye holes cut out, Farmer said.
Farmer said that along with note indicating an explosive was placed in the school, the boy's backpack held military manuals, instructions on assembling an improvised explosive device and detailed drawings of the school.
"This was quite well thought-out," Farmer said. "He had been planning this for a long time."
Jones said the gun belonged to the boy's parents, who kept the weapon in a safe at home. The parents told police their son apparently knew the combination to the gun safe. Farmer said it is not uncommon for people in the area to own assault weapons.
The shooting happened about 10 minutes before school started.
"A lot of the kids were scared," said eighth-grader Deron Moore. "After they said on the intercom that there was someone with a gun, I kind of went into shock."
Joplin, which has about 41,000 residents, is on the Kansas state line about 140 miles south of Kansas City, Mo.
Schools across the country have been on alert since three deadly school shootings in three states in a week. In Pennsylvania, church bells tolled Monday morning in remembrance of the five young Amish girls killed at their one-room schoolhouse one week earlier.
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