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| Teens arrested in school bomb plot
It's crazy enough that this occured (on a Friday when this took place) only a few days after the Dawson shooting in Canada  Quote:
Report: Third Person Arrested in Wisconsin School Bomb Plot
Saturday , September 16, 2006
GREEN BAY, Wis. — A third person has been arrested in a foiled Columbine-style plan to bomb and shoot students at a local high school, a newspaper reported.
Two 17-year-olds were arrested Thursday at East High School after a student went to an associate principal. A detective said Friday that one boy wanted to enact the plan Thursday but the other talked him out of it.
The Green Bay Press-Gazette reported Saturday that a third person was arrested Friday afternoon and booked into the Brown County Jail for conspiracy to commit first-degree intentional homicide.
Green Bay Police Capt. David Hemes confirmed late Friday to the newspaper that the arrest is related to the East High plot, but said no other details were available. No one would comment Saturday morning at the police station, but said more information about the case would be released later Saturday.
William C. Cornell and Shawn R. Sturtz were arrested for suspicion of conspiracy to commit first-degree intentional homicide and conspiracy to commit arson. Brown County District Attorney John Zakowski said he planned to file charges next Thursday.
Court Commissioner Jane Sequin ordered each teen jailed on $500,000 bond Friday. They were still in jail Saturday morning.
Police Detective Tom Molitor testified at a hearing Friday that both teens, who are seniors, told police that they had been plotting the massacre for several years.
They planned to set off bombs near bathrooms, light the exits on fire with jelled gasoline so no one could escape and shoot people they had problems with, Molitor said.
Police found nine rifles and shotguns, a handgun, about 20 "crudely made" explosive devices, camouflage clothing, gas masks, two-way radios and hundreds of rounds of ammunition at Cornell's house, Police Capt. Lisa Sterr said. She said Cornell had made several of the improvised explosive devices about two months ago.
At Sturtz's home, police found knives and ammunition, Sterr said.
Police said they also found mannequin heads that appeared to have been used for target practice, and suicide notes.
No dangerous materials were found at the school, Sterr said.
The two teens had long been fascinated by the April 1999 Columbine massacre in Littleton, Colo., in which two students armed with guns, knives and bombs killed 12 classmates and a teacher before killing themselves, Sterr said.
In Montreal on Wednesday, an attacker killed a student at Dawson College and wounded 20 others before killing himself. Kimveer Gill, 25, had dressed in a black trench coat like the Columbine shooters, posted online photos of himself with weapons and said he liked to play an Internet role game about the Columbine killings
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