More on the Belvidere High plot

Officials: Two involved in high school plot:
It turns out that there weren't 10 suspects in the plot against Belvidere High School in New Jersey. Only the previously mentioned James Shipps and the mentally unbalanced 17-year-old. It also turns out that Shipps wasn't even a Belvidere student.

Officials: Teen suspected of planning attack spoke of killing:
The 17-year-old all of a sudden developed a military fascination...

Belvidere Township police chief Kent Sweigert said the student shaved his head, wore military fatigues to school, and sent a disturbing e-mail to a teacher that said he wanted to attack the school.

"He was going to Iraq and he wanted to kill people," Sweigert said. "And when he came back, he was going to kill people at the school and claim as an excuse that he was having flashbacks."

I wonder if this is some kind of bizarre hero worship. The 22-year-old Shipps is a member of the New Jersey National Guard. Shipps told people that he was shipping out to Iraq but the article states that orders to deploy have not been issued yet.

The 17-year-old tried to sign up for the Guard but was rejected for previous legal trouble for shooting hollow-point bullets from a handgun in the woods. In case you didn't know New Jersey has some of the strictest gun laws in the country. I'm amazed the kid could get hollow points.

No word yet on a motive or how Shipps and the 17-year-old know each other.