Teen tells police he idolized Columbine gunman
Source: Associated Press
Teen tells police he idolized Columbine gunman
| June 25, 2014 | Updated: June 25, 2014 4:24pm
WASECA, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota teenager accused of planning to massacre his family and high school classmates mocked the attacks on the Boston Marathon and Sandy Hook Elementary School as "pretty lame" and "pathetic" and said he idolized one of the Columbine gunmen, according to recordings of his police interrogation.
The 17-year-old was arrested in April after authorities said they found him with bomb-making materials in a storage locker at his school in Waseca, 70 miles south of Minneapolis.
In the two recordings released Tuesday, the teen calmly described his plan to "dispose of" his family, set a fire as a diversion and use explosives and guns to attack his school. He said he thought it would be "fun" and that he was following his idol, Eric Harris, who alongside Dylan Klebold slaughtered 13 people and injured 26 more before committing suicide at Columbine High School in 1999.
The teen told police he was not targeting anyone specific at the school.
"I would have taken anyone out, I didn't care," he told detectives. He insisted, though, that he had only wanted to kill older students because he did not want to be remembered in the same way as Sandy Hook shooter Adam Lanza, who killed 20 elementary school children in his December 2012 attack.
Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Teen-talks-of-murderous-plans-in-police-interview-5577875.php
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Well, at least this one has a little class!
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