2 Teens Plan School Masacre

[Lone Gunman]

2 Teens Arrested in Alleged Massacre Plot Sun Dec 18, 6:46 AM ET



LANCASTER, Calif. - Two teenagers were in custody for allegedly plotting to carry out a Columbine-like massacre at their former high school next Valentine's Day, authorities said.

The former Quartz Hill High students, whose names were not released, were arrested Thursday after searches of their homes turned up knives, ammunition, a gas mask and bomb-making instructions downloaded from the Internet, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.

They were being held at the Sylmar Juvenile Detention Center for investigation of making terrorist threats, Brown said.

"I've been working with schools for eight years, and we have hoaxes all the time, but this is the first time that I thought, 'Oops, this one could really happen,'" sheriff's Sgt. Darrel Brown said Friday. "You could see they were preparing meticulously, taking things step by step."

The boys, ages 17 and 15, had been transferred from Quartz Hill to other schools for disciplinary reasons, authorities said.

Brown said an investigation began Wednesday when a student contacted the school's vice principal and said the former classmates were planning a "Columbine-style assault" on the campus. The student said she had learned about it second-hand.

The boys told investigators that they planned to kill Quartz Hill students who had made fun of them, using guns and homemade explosives, then commit suicide, Brown said.

On Friday, deputies at the sheriff's station in Lancaster displayed a page from the 15-year-old's notebook with the scrawled message: "When I'm God, everyone dies."

The notebook was accompanied by a three-ring binder with pictures of Columbine High School killers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh and murderer Charles Manson.

Deputies said they found a black trench coat at one boy's home, possibly to be used in imitation of the similarly-dressed Columbine killers, and the 15-year-old boy had carved the word "hate" into his forearm, authorities alleged.

[K C Muffin]

How sad. Sad that former classmates had to rat these boys out before anybody knew anything was wrong. And sad that they thought this was the only way. Obviously they had a problem to be kicked out of that school, I can't figure out why the parents wouldn't have been keeping a closer eye on them or maybe getting some counseling for them. Glad somebody stopped them before they did something their parents would forever regret.

[TexKan]

sick, sick, sick, - looks like they can continue their quest for higher education at juvie center.

[Highwayman]

The boys told investigators that they planned to kill Quartz Hill students who had made fun of them, using guns and homemade explosives, then commit suicide, Brown said.

Pardon me, but if these punks want to commit suicide because they got made fun of, fine. But go out in the boonies and blow your brains out. If they can find their brains that is. I was called names, beat up and even had a knife put to my neck in junior high. Never occurred to me to kill someone else or myself.

To the folks that demand God be eliminated from society, nice work @holes.

[Lone Gunman]

Originally Posted by Highwayman

Pardon me, but if these punks want to commit suicide because they got made fun of, fine. But go out in the boonies and blow your brains out. If they can find their brains that is. I was called names, beat up and even had a knife put to my neck in junior high. Never occurred to me to kill someone else or myself.

To the folks that demand God be eliminated from society, nice work @holes.

[wordsmythe]

Originally Posted by Highwayman

Pardon me, but if these punks want to commit suicide because they got made fun of, fine. But go out in the boonies and blow your brains out. If they can find their brains that is. I was called names, beat up and even had a knife put to my neck in junior high. Never occurred to me to kill someone else or myself.

To the folks that demand God be eliminated from society, nice work @holes.

What a wonderful non-sequiter.