Posted on 01/13/2004 3:25:39 PM PST by blam
Students accused of planning copycat Columbine massacre
Two high school students have been arrested in Louisiana and accused of creating an elaborate plan to recreate the bloody Columbine high school massacre on its five-year anniversary in April.
Christopher Levins, 17, and Adam Sinclair, 19, were both charged with terrorising - a felony punishable with up to 15 years in prison, Ascension Parish Sheriff Jeff Wiley said.
"This is not just a case of kids just talking to be cool," Wiley said. "These students had plans all worked out."
The alleged plot was discovered after an anonymous call was made to Dutchtown High School on Friday indicated some kind of armed disturbance was being planned.
Levins and Sinclair admitted some of the planning but called it a "fantasy" and a joke, and said they never really planned to go through with it, Lieutenant Kevin Hanna said.
Deputies said they found drawings and papers about the April 20, 1999, shootings at Columbine High in Colorado. Students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 13 people before committing suicide. Twenty-three others were wounded.
Poems by the pair about being bullied and numerous writings in which Levins and Sinclair refer to themselves as "The Trenchcoat Mafia" were also found, authorities said.
Harris and Klebold had been said to belong to a loosely knit group with that name at Columbine, though investigators later said they were not part of it.
"We found one drawing that had the student blowing the brains out of a particular teacher," Wiley said. Another depicted Levins and Sinclair on a school roof celebrating around dead bodies hanging out of windows, officers said.
"Apparently, they were planning to wake up at 4:20 a.m. on April 20 of this year to do this," Major Tony Bacala said.
Story filed: 17:22 Tuesday 13th January 2004
Even if that's true, these punks need to be locked up in a hospital for the criminally insane.
Maybe another massacre was stopped, maybe it wasn't, but what the Hell kind of charge is "terrorising?!"
Maybe another massacre was stopped, maybe it wasn't, but what the Hell kind of charge is "terrorising?!" It's not even spelled correctly.
Just in time for renewing the Assault Weapons ban.
Look for more of this kind of thing soon.
Welcome to the South.
What, in the North, is called Harassment, is called Terroristic Threats down here.
That's right. Come past the Mason-Dixon line and you go from being some jerk with a big mouth and an attitude problem, to turn into Osama Bin Laden.
Is called "Tacky" in the South.
Is called "He needed killin'" in Texas.
Christopher Levins, 17, of Prairieville and Adam Sinclair, 19, of Geismar were each booked Monday with one count of terrorizing -- a felony punishable with up to 15 years in prison, Ascension Parish Sheriff Jeff Wiley said.
"This is not just a case of kids just talking to be cool," Wiley said. "These students had plans all worked out."
The alleged plot was discovered after an anonymous call was made to Dutchtown High School on Friday indicated some kind of armed disturbance was being planned. Levins and Sinclair admitted some of the planning but called it a "fantasy" and a joke, and said they never really planned to go through with it, Lt. Kevin Hanna said.
Deputies said they found drawings and papers about the April 20, 1999, shootings at Columbine High in Littleton, Colorado. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 13 people before committing suicide. Twenty-three others were wounded.
Poems by the pair about being bullied and numerous writings in which Levins, a senior, and Sinclair, a sophomore, refer to themselves as "The Trenchcoat Mafia" were also found, authorities said. Harris and Klebold had been said to belong to a loosely knit group with that name at Columbine, though investigators later said they were not part of it.
"We found one drawing that had the student blowing the brains out of a particular teacher," Wiley said. Another depicted Levins and Sinclair on a school roof celebrating around dead bodies hanging out of windows, officers said.
"Apparently, they were planning to wake up at 4:20 a.m. on April 20 of this year to do this," Maj. Tony Bacala said.
Authorities said no weapons were found, although detectives did find evidence that Levins and Sinclair had obtained information on buying shotguns and rifles.
The investigation is continuing and more arrests are possible, Wiley said. Neither student has a criminal record, and school officials said neither was a discipline problem.
Efforts to reach the two students' families for comment were unsuccessful Tuesday morning. There were no telephone listings for Levins or Sinclair in the area.
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