Parents turn in alleged school bomb plotter - CNN

[Yrys]

Parents turn in alleged school bomb plotter

(CNN) -- A South Carolina high school senior arrested in an alleged bomb plot had the ingredients to assemble a bomb in minutes, police said Monday. Ryan
Schallenberger, 18, was arrested Saturday after his parents called police when 10 pounds of ammonium nitrate, an oxidizing agent in explosives, was delivered to
their home in Chesterfield, near the North Carolina border, Chief Randall Lear of the Chesterfield Police Department said.

Chesterfield County Sheriff Sam Parker said the ammonium nitrate was purchased on eBay. Lear said the teen hadn't built a complete bomb but had appropriate
materials so that "it would be a matter of just minutes to put something together." Most of the ingredients were common household items, the chief said. Parker
said Schallenberger, who was assigned a lawyer in an initial court appearance on Monday, is cooperating with the investigation. The teen told authorities he had
experimented with explosives in the past, Parker said.

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"He seemed to hate the world. He hated people different from him -- the rich boys with good-looking girlfriends," The Associated Press quoted Lear as saying.

The teen planned to make several bombs to detonate at Chesterfield in what Schallenberger called a "Columbine followup" in his journal, Lear said.

The police chief said Schallenberger's journal revealed his sympathies for the two teenage gunmen who carried out the 1999 shootings at Columbine High School in
Colorado. Those shootings left 15 people dead, including the shooters. But, Lear said, the South Carolina teen made it clear that he didn't want to "copycat" Columbine.
He planned out in detail -- down to the costs of the bomb supplies -- his plans for multiple explosions at the school, Lear said. He even recorded an audiotape meant to
be heard after he attacked the school and killed himself, though he had not set a date for his plans, Lear said.

Police searched the area around Schallenberger's home for additional supplies and weapons. No guns were found in the home, Lear said. "I don't have any doubt that he
was going to carry it out," Lear said. "On the surface, he was one thing, and in his writing, he was something else."

Police interviews with family and friends painted Schallenberger as a handsome, social student with ambitions for college. "He was not what you would call a loner," Lear
said. The police chief said investigators aren't aware of any accomplices.

Scott Radkin, the principal of Chesterfield High School, said Schallenberger is among the top students in the senior class, according to an AP report.

 

[geo]

Good call by the parents.
Better be forewarned than feeling remorse for what the adolescent mighta done.

 

[Yrys]

Good call by the parents.
Better be forewarned than feeling remorse for what the adolescent mighta done.

Cop think so, too .

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24255982/

 

[Hawk]

My heart goes out to the parents. That has to be the hardest thing they've ever had to do.


Hawk

 

[X-mo-1979]

Must be frightening to the parents.I can';t imagine my child doing something like that,I'm sure they didn't either.

Killology anyone?

 

[rmc_wannabe]

Reminds me of a story outta Toronto not to far back. Mother found an AK - 47 under her sons pillow and turned him in. Hard to think someone you've watched grow up could have these feelings and thoughts harbouring inside them eh 

 

[Kat Stevens]

He obviously wasn't hugged enough, or not enough jell-o.

 

[geo]

A friend of my wife turned in her daughter to Child protection services (DPJ) for a week's stay....
Daughter was spittin mad at the time it happened but, years later admitted that the tough love was exactly what the Dr prescribed....

 

[Yrys]

Same type of plot at the beginning of the article, then some lines about same event, at the end  :

Teen planned simultaneous school attacks, prosecutor says

SOUTH BEND, Indiana (AP) -- 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 September 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 September
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.

Police searched the student's locker, backpack, home and laptop computer and found notebooks in which he wrote about killing a large number of people.
They found he had searched the Internet on Monday for how to make propane tank bombs and for a reference guide on how to make explosives and other
dangerous devices, Dvorak said. The teen also searched for 9mm guns, he said. A juvenile court hearing was scheduled for Friday to determine whether
the teenager should remain in custody.

Meanwhile, prosecutors in Columbia, South Carolina, sought a mental evaluation for an 18-year-old accused of planning to bomb his high school.

Ryan Schallenberger should be examined to determine whether he understands the case against him or can help with his defense, federal prosecutors wrote
in a motion filed in federal court. The teenager is in the Chesterfield County jail. He was arrested April 19 and faces several state and federal charges, including
attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction. That charge carries a possible life sentence if he is convicted.

Authorities have said Schallenberger's parents called police because he had ordered ammonium nitrate, which was used in the deadly Oklahoma City bombing in 1995.

Michael Meetze, Schallenberger's public defender, declined to comment Thursday.

 

[geo]

Too many hormones and not enough sense....

 

[rmc_wannabe]

Whatever happened to letting the anger out on the sports field? ??? I remember getting made fun of in Highschool and then shutting the person up with a nice tackle during a Rugby game. Seems high explosive and 9mm are the only way to tell someone to STFU at highschool nowadays, tragic really  .