TheTrenchcoat Chronicles

Category: Crime

  • Cossey charged as juvenile

    Pa. DA won’t seek to move student arsenal case to adult court:

    Dillon Cossey, the 14-year-old accused of plotting an attack against Plymouth Whitemarsh High School, will not be tried as an adult. Montgomery County DA Bruce Castor had this to say…

    Cossey “suffers from severe emotional and psychiatric disabilities which I believe the juvenile court is in the best position to address,” Castor wrote to Judge Paul Tressler. “I find that he is likely amenable to treatment and supervision by juvenile authorities.”

    I have no problem with Cossey being tried as a juvenile. His parents, on the other hand, should have the book thrown at them. They’re the ones who provided him with the most lethal weapons of his arsenal, to begin with. For parents that were allegedly homeschooling their kid, they don’t seem too bright.

  • Close but no cigar

    School shootings show shortcomings of American society:

    This is an editorial from a student at the University of Maine about how the signs were ignored from school shooters Asa Coon and Cho Seung-Hui. It’s a really good article up until this point…

    Apparently, both of these tragedies, along with countless others, point to flaws in not just the school system, but in society as well. Are Americans so blind and selfish that they cannot learn from the past, and reach out to those who feel insignificant and hopeless? Maybe if we stepped outside of our comfort zone and lent a helping hand to “troubled” people like Asa Coon and Seung-Hui Cho, we could prevent school violence.

    So close.

    What the question should be is are American kids so blind and selfish that they think that mass murder is the way to solve their problems? Instead of “society” stepping out of its comfort zone maybe it should be parents that step out of their comfort zones and be parents again and not just baby makers. Maybe then their kids wouldn’t be so “troubled”.

  • SuccessTech teacher speaks out

    Student was angry because he was failing:

    Michael Grassie was Asa Coon’s history teacher at SuccessTech. He was also one of Coon’s intended targets. Coon tried starting a fight with the teacher just days before he went on his shooting spree. It’s no surprise that he was failing the class. So rather than study or ask for help or work hard, Coon tried to solve his problems with guns.

    “It was something I haven’t seen on a 14-year-old’s face before,” Grassie said. It was a face of “total anger, real hatred.” He said he knew that Coon was angry with him earlier because Grassie noted on his school progress report that he was failing the course.

    Coon asked during the confrontation: “Now what do you have to say to me?”

    Grassie said he was mentoring another student at the time when Coon turned to the student and said “you’re cool,” then turned his gun on the teacher.

    The bullet entered Grassie’s torso, hit his spleen and pancreas but missed his aorta before exiting the back. Grassie suffered the worst injuries of Coon’s shooting victims.

    Grassie even plays the bullying card for Coon…

    He said Coon “seemed really troubled” and acknowledged what other teachers and students said about the youth: He was the target of student harassment for his counter-culture dress and lifestyle.

    Coon was disruptive in class, Grassie said, and he tried to bring the unruliness to Coon’s mother’s attention, but without success.

    I’m all for individual expression but if you go around looking and acting like an asshat you’re going to invite trouble on yourself.

    So basically Coon shot Grassie over Coon’s own inadequacies. Pretty pathetic.

  • Asa Coon’s death picture

    Disturbing Asa Coon photo on Internet:

    It seems that all the ghouls are out just in time for Halloween.

    Someone at the scene of Asa Coon’s suicide apparently had taken a picture of his corpse. Of course, the internet being what it is the picture of Asa Coon’s bloody body is already making its rounds. I haven’t even posted this yet and I’m already getting hits from the ghouls look for the picture. Guess what Sunshine. It isn’t here. It never will be here. As much as I think that the kid was an idiot for doing what he did I would never in good conscience post the picture of his corpse. All the cretins that are looking for this picture are probably are the same ones who got off on watching the victims of 9/11 fall from the towers and would probably run home crying to mommy if they ever came in a contact with a real dead body. So cream your jeans over your gore porn you sick fucks. One day it might be your bloody corpse that some jackass is getting his lulz from.

  • Still not roid rage

    Steroids did not act alone:

    This is an article from Jim Varsalone, the pro-wrestling editor of the Miami Herald. He’s kind of saying what I’ve been saying since day one of the Chris Benoit murder-suicides.

    Roid rage, a term associated with steroid use, is a quick, violent outburst. It leads to a punch, a kick, an assault, but not murder. The Benoit murders/suicide occurred over a two to three day period.

    With the rampant use of steroids in sports and the number of high-profile wrestlers who have died at an early age, no one — other than Benoit — has been linked to murder.

    Mr. Varsalone goes through numerous other aspects of steroids and Chris Benoit’s crime as well. It’s worth your time to read the whole article and get another perspective.

  • Looney on the lam

    Police still searching for mother of SuccessTech gunman:

    Lori Looney, no joke, is the mother of Asa Coon. By now you know Asa Coon was the 14-year-old gunman at the SuccessTech shootings in Cleveland. An arrest warrant was issued for Ms. Looney for obstruction of justice. Allegedly Asa’s brother Stephen violated his parole and was picked up last week after the shooting. Ms. Looney allegedly lied to police about her son’s whereabouts. All these charges for Stephen Coon and Lori Looney are unrelated to the shooting but Ms. Looney has gone missing.

  • Dillon Cossey in court

    Plymouth Teen Appears In Court:

    Dillon Cossey, the homeschooled kid from Pa. who allegedly was plotting an attack against a high school, appeared in court today. Usually, I only blog about court appearances that have noteworthy outcomes. In this one Cossey was ordered to undergo psychological analysis which I usually don’t find interesting until the results come back. However, the prosecutors said something that caught my interest.

    Montgomery County prosecutors said that Cossey said other students had harassed him when he attended schools in the Colonial School District up to a year and a half ago.

    A year and a half ago? Jeez, kid, you should have let it go? I mean wasn’t that the whole point of being homeschooled?

    It’s still undetermined whether or not Cossey will be tried as an adult.

  • Michele Cossey released

    Mother released on bail after charged with buying weapons for son:

    Michele Cossey, the mother of Dillon Cossey, has been released on bail. She was charged with buying a .22-caliber handgun, a .22-caliber rifle and a 9-millimeter semiautomatic rifle for her son. Dillon Cossey was arrested for plotting an armed attack against Plymouth Whitemarsh High School in Pennsylvania.

    Investigators said in court papers that the mother bought the rifle, which had a laser scope, at a gun show in September and provided police with a receipt.

    A laser scope? Nice. Way to make sure your kid has deadly accuracy.

    Luckily Dillon Cossey was never in possession of any ammunition.

  • Apologies for Asa

    Uncle Says Gunman Upset With Teachers:

    Here we go. Cue up some more apologists for Asa Coon. First, let’s start with his uncle.

    The 14-year-old who opened fire at his high school had been upset with teachers, saying they wouldn’t listen to his side of the story regarding a recent after-school scuffle that got him suspended, the teenager’s uncle said Friday.

    Larry Looney, who lived upstairs from Asa Coon in a west side duplex, said the two were lifting weights Tuesday when he told him about Monday’s fight with another student and his three-day suspension.

    “He really didn’t want to talk about it,” Looney said. “He said he really didn’t do anything to start it. He said the teachers wouldn’t listen to his side of the story.

    “I just can’t believe he would do anything like that.”

    How do these kids make this leap in logic? This is what happens when we try to shelter our kids from failure. If we shield them from the real world they think that life is supposed to be fair. Then when they experience rejection they make stupid leaps in logic like shooting up the school.

    Now a school volunteer…

    Coon was ridiculed by classmates at SuccessTech. He had a tendency not to fight back when teased, but recently got into an after-school scuffle, was suspended and made threats that he would blow up the school or stab everybody.

    “This kid finally broke,” said Christina Burns, who volunteered at a school Coon previously attended. “He finally lost his mind.”

    Cry me a river. I guess he only slapped around his mom which makes him one of the worst kind of bullies.

  • Dissesnion in Dunbar

    Jail letters talk strategy in Dunbar Village rape case, records show:

    It’s been a while since we’ve heard anything about the Dunbar Village rape case. In case you’ve forgotten that’s was when a bunch of teen thugs broke into this woman’s apartment, gang-raped her, and forced her to have sex with her 12-year-old son.

    It seems that there is dissension in their ranks.

    Deputies seized two letters from 14-year-old Avion Lawson, whose DNA was found on a condom left at the rape scene. A letter Lawson picked up in front of co-defendant Jakaris Taylor’s cell says “real niggas don’t take pleas,” but the writer urges Lawson to do so.

    “But they no you wuz in the house so just stick up to it bro … they really do got yo DNA,” the letter says.

    The letter is signed “Bean Boys,” Soulja and L’il Beast.

    A few weeks after that July letter, a jail deputy confiscated a second one from Lawson’s styrofoam food tray after a meal, a letter to an unnamed person. The writer claims he never had sex with the woman but knows who did. “Now if they trying to give me life for something I ain’t do … they goin’ wit me.”

    There is, though, a transcript of a phone conversation Lawson had while using a phone at the police station. In it, he complains that another suspect, a 14-year-old not charged, is ratting him out in the interview room next door. He says the female detective knew a lot details about the crime that she otherwise would not have known.

    It’s only a matter of time before somebody rolls on their buddies if they haven’t already.

    What I want to know though is when the other arrests are coming. Allegedly police have the names of other suspects but only four of the alleged 10 are in jail.