I’d like to address all the Columbine conspiracy theorists out there. Please stop contacting me. I have no time for your bullshit theories. I am a firm believer in Occam’s Razor. The obvious answer is usually the correct one.
The Columbine shootings were only carried out by two people, the cowardly scumbags Harris and Klebold. There were no additional gunmen. Police did not shoot any of the victims.
Please remove your Reynolds Wrap chapeaus, get out of mom’s basement and leave me alone.
Teen’s trial in school bomb case again delayed:
The trial for 18-year-old Ryan Schallenberger has been delayed once again. If you’ll recall Schallenberger was the teen who was allegedly plotting an attack on Chesterfield High School in South Carolina. The plot unraveled when his parents discovered a package of ammonium nitrate that was delivered to his house.
According to Schallenberger’s own journals, he admired the Columbine killers and was jealous of all the ‘cool kids’. He also wanted to go to heaven after he committed his attack so he could kill Jesus.
The trial is being delayed once again at the request of the prosecution and the defense. The defense needs more time to confer with their client after months of psych evals requested by the prosecution.
Since Schallenberger received the ammonium nitrate through the mail this is being tried in Federal Court.
The trial is slated to start in March.
Pa. mom sentenced for helping son get weapons:
Michele Cossey, the mother of Dillon Cossey, was sentenced to four months in prison and five years probation. If you’ll recall Dillon Cossey was arrested for plotting an attack against Plymouth-Whitemarsh High School outside of Philadelphia even though he was homeschooled. Michele Cossey bought her underage son one of the guns that he planned on using.
Even after Dillon Cossey was sentenced his mom still showed spoiling tendencies by smuggling fast food into her son while he was in detention.
For once I’m actually glad to see a parent being held responsible for allowing their kid to plot a school attack.
Daughter of stabbing victim to be charged as adult, state’s attorney says:
Alleged blood drinking goth girl Danielle Black is going to be charged as an adult in the plot to kill her father.
If you’ll recall 15-year-old Black asked a classmate to kill her father claiming that her father was abusing her. Instead, a third person, 19-year-old Alec Eger, was the one who stabbed Billy Lee Black to death.
Allegedly Black was upset that her dad didn’t like her hanging out with her alleged blood drinking friends.
Va. Tech Campus Paper Posts E-mails To and About Gunman Online:
The Virginia Tech student newspaper, The Collegiate Times, has made public e-mails concerning Virginia Tech gunman Cho Seung Hui. The e-mails were originally released only to the families of the victims and Collegiate Times editor-in-chief David Grant won’t say how the paper came to be in possession of them. Some are criticizing the Times for making these public stating it’s disrespectful to the families but the Times has not made any family information publicly available.
The e-mails between Cho and Virginia Tech faculty can be seen here. E-mails between faculty members about Cho can be read here.
In my opinion there really isn’t anything new in these e-mails that we didn’t already know. They further show just how selfish Cho was and how he blamed his failures and shortcomings on others.
He had trouble speaking in public yet he chose to become an English major. He was failing some of his courses but he blamed that on the professors. The professors offered him every opportunity to help him bring his grades up but he kept wanting to do things his way. They offered him advice on how to get over his problems with public speaking. They were legitimately concerned about his mental health. No one can say that Cho was a victim.
He lived his life the same way he took so many others. An egotistical and selfish punk who thought it was all about him with no regard for anyone else but himself.
Fla. teen pleads not guilty in school shooting:
Teah Wimberly pleaded not guilty in court today into the school shooting death of her former friend Amanda Collette.
She is being tried as an adult and is looking at life in prison.
Police look into charging Golden:
The other day I posted about how Andrew Golden/Drew Douglas Grant was denied a conceal and carry permit. Now investigators are looking into if any criminal charges could be filed. However, the only charges that could be filed would be misdemeanors.
It’s also interesting to note that juvenile convictions that are expunged in any other case can apply to a denial of a conceal and carry permit.
As previously mentioned Golden/Grant lied on his application about various addresses he lived at and his fingerprints also identified him as one of the Jonesboro shooters.
Zarate faces life for brutal murder:
Actually, this is an article from NorthJersey.com that gives us some new information about the Zarate trial.
Sentencing is scheduled for January 16th. In New Jersey, a life sentence is 75 years and he must serve 85% of that sentence before being eligible for parole. That’s almost 64 years. Prosecutors will also be asking for consecutive sentences for some of the lesser charges as well so Zarate could end up getting 100 years behind bars. We can hope.
Zarate’s brother James will be going to trial for his part in the murder next year.
Thanks again to Helen for the tips.
Daniel Petric killed mother, shot father because they took Halo 3 video game, prosecutors say:
17-year-old Daniel Petric of Ohio is on trial for shooting his parents after his father forbade him from playing Halo 3. His father, Mark Petric, survived but his mother, Susan Petric, die from her wounds.
Petric had snuck out of the house to buy the game when he returned he was caught by his dad who took the game away from him. His father put the game in the same lockbox he kept a 9mm handgun.
A month later Petric was able to break into the box. He took the gun and shot both of his parents. He told them to close their eyes because he had a surprise for them and that’s when he shot them both. He then placed the gun in his dad’s hand and said “Hey Dad, here’s your gun. Take it.”
When Daniel’s older sister arrived at the house with her husband Daniel fled the scene taking the game with him.
He is being tried as an adult.
Now the question is did the game make him like this. After all Halo 3 is a fairly violent game to non-gamers. However, the answer to that question, of course, is no. I’ve posted various stories about teens who have killed their parents and rarely are video games involved. Usually, it’s over a boyfriend or girlfriend or some other teenage addiction that they allegedly couldn’t live without.
Unfortunately, this is another case of a teen who thought that their alleged problems were more important than life itself. I wonder how our teens became so selfish.
Court upholds decision to keep Columbine depositions sealed:
The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a decision that depositions given by the parents of the Columbine shooters remain sealed in the National Archives for 20 years.
Previously U.S. District Judge Lewis T. Babcock ordered the depositions sealed after families of the victims among others had requested that the depositions be made public. The depositions were given by Wayne and Kathy Harris, the parents of Eric Harris, and Thomas and Susan Klebold, the parents of Dylan Klebold. They’re from a civil lawsuit that the family of Columbine victim Daniel Rohrbough filed against the killers’ parents.
In the new ruling attorneys argued that since the records were made by a court that they qualify under the Federal Records Act. The court disagreed stating the depositions should have been returned to the people who made them. If that had happened I’m sure they’d be nothing but ash by now.
Judge Babcock originally ruled that way stating that if the depositions were to be made public that would inspire a whole new generation of school shooters. I disagree. In case you haven’t noticed school shooters and would be shooters don’t need some depositions to find inspiration. You would need to erase the memories of Columbine and every school shooting since from everyone on the planet before they would no longer find inspiration. The private journals of both cowardly scumbag killers have been released and that didn’t cause an outbreak of shootings.
Conversely, I think it would benefit greatly if the depositions were made public. We could learn from the Harrises and Klebolds mistakes in their parenting techniques on how to tell if our children are on a dangerous path like those of the killers.
Now there will just have to be a 20-year wait for that knowledge. I still say if any school shooting deaths happen between now and then that the blood will be on the hands of Judge Babcock.