School Massacre Foiled In Kansas
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Breaking NewsFive kids plotting to kill their classmates? Scary stuff.
From KC Star:
RIVERTON, Kan. – Five teenage boys accused of plotting to kill other students in a shooting rampage at their southeast Kansas high school were arrested Thursday after details of the alleged scheme appeared on the Web site MySpace.com.Cherokee County sheriff’s deputies found guns, ammunition, knives and coded messages in the bedroom of one of the suspects, Sheriff Steve Norman said. In two of the suspects’ school lockers, authorities found documents about firearms and references to Armageddon, he said.
All five suspects were arrested at their homes, some as early as 12:30 a.m. Charges were not immediately filed, and the names of the suspects had not been released.
Norman said he would seek charges of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder against the young men, who range in age from 16 to 18.
As always, the question is “why?” Rage? Frustration? Psychological problems? Probably a mix of all three. But seriously, what the hell were these kids thinking to plot something like this against their classmates? These cases always baffle me.
At least they didn’t get a chance to carry out the plan, so maybe we’ll find out why…
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April 21st, 2006 at 1:05 am
I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that school killings are, probably without exception, a perverted way of “making a mark on the world.” Normal people typically dream of somehow influencing the world in some dramatic way, leaving a legacy and all that. But now consider the person who has been driven to the point of being suicidal. They are no less interested in leaving behind something that will last beyond death. Sometimes it’s something as simple as a suicide note. But apparently sometimes it’s the violent deaths of the people that they blame for driving them to the point of actually being suicidal. In their own twisted logic, they may even believe they’re making the world a better place.
April 21st, 2006 at 1:54 pm
If these kids are really serious about doing this stuff, why advertise on the internet? I suppose it’s one of those “cries for help,” that if someone had just seen (like the lady from North Carolina that saw the myspace page and called the cops), the disaster would have been prevented. We need to seriously work on our schools and parenting in this country. Jeezus.
April 21st, 2006 at 1:57 pm
Justin,
By the way, I like how you say it was “foiled.” It sounds like a Scooby Doo cartoon.