Mother of teen allegedly planning attack on school is charged:
I don’t know how, but the suspect in the plot to attack Plymouth Whitemarsh High School has had his name released. His parents were previously identified as Michele and Frank Cossey. His name is Dillon Cossey. I don’t know why the media is releasing his name all of a sudden, but there it is.
TOF to DebG.
Teen is accused of amassing weapons for possible attack:
So let me get this straight. A homeschooled kid from the Philly suburbs felt bullied? From who? Anyway, because of this alleged bullying, the 14-year-old planned to attack Plymouth Whitemarsh High School. According to this article, police were tipped off when the suspect tried recruiting another teen.
Police found a 9 mm assault rifle, air guns, hand grenades, a bomb-making book, videos of the 1999 Columbine attack in Colorado and violence-filled notebooks, prosecutors said. However, they found no ammunition for the most dangerous weapon, the assault rifle.
What do you know? I think this is the first instance of a homeschooled mutant.
The best part? It’s believed that his mom bought him the gun. Good job mom.
Since all this was going on under the homeschooler’s nose, I don’t think he was being schooled all that well.
Ohio school shooter gave many warnings:
When someone says I have a gun, and I’m going to shoot up the school, why in the blue hell do people continue to ignore it?
“When he got suspended he said, ‘I got something for y’all,’ ” she said. “I thought he was just playing, because he, like, said that all the time. But I see that he was for real.”
YA THINK?
And it wasn’t just students, the faculty of SuccessTech ignored it too.
On CBS’ “Early Show” Thursday morning, student Rasheem Smith said the school’s principal, Johneita Durant, had not found time to discuss students’ concerns about Coon, The Associated Press reported.
“I told my friends in the class that he had a gun and stuff,” Smith said. “He was talking about doing it last week. I don’t know why they didn’t say nothing.
“We talked to the principal. She would try to get us all in the office, but it would always be too busy for it to happen.”
A message left at Durant’s office was not immediately returned, the AP reported, and a phone call to her home was not answered.
SuccessTech doesn’t sound very successful now, does it?
Let’s cue up the apologists while we’re at it.
“You get pushed and pushed and pushed, and sometimes you go over the edge,” a neighbor told CNN affiliate WOIO.
“I ain’t justifying nothing,” said another neighbor. “I ain’t saying he did the right thing, but I am saying he got pushed for a long time and asked them people to help, help, help, help, but nobody helped.”
Now, who exactly did Asa Coon ask for help? Was it the mother he slapped around, or the judge whose courtroom he stormed out of? And who exactly pushed him? To do what exactly?
Just another example of everyone trying to place the blame everywhere except where it should be. On Asa Coon.
Witness saw school shooter loading gun in bathroom:
In a stroke of pure idiocy, a witness at SuccessTech watched Asa Coon load one of his guns BUT DIDN’T TELL ANYONE. I’ve omitted the witness’ name.
When the witness saw Coon load a gun, he left but didn’t tell a teacher.
“I don’t know what I was thinking, he said. “I didn’t want him to shoot me.”
Fifteen minutes later, the witness was eating lunch in the cafeteria, also on the fourth floor, he heard a loud sound. Yet, the witness, believing it was nothing more than a book slamming on a desk, didn’t react.
Then the witness heard someone shout that a student had a gun. Just then the witness saw Asa shoot a teacher.
I think Belch is right that SuccessTech isn’t the Utopian school they make it out to be because obviously, this kid wasn’t very bright. How do you not report someone with a gun? The witness should get on his knees and thank God that no one was killed.
We’re so close to bestowing the M-title on SuccessTech gunman Asa Coon, but we’re not there yet. The Cleveland Plain Dealer has some more info on him and in the process, they try to get you to be sympathetic about him. We all know where you can find sympathy, too. However, I have no sympathy for a kid who slapped around his own mother and talked about suicide.
What started the whole mess is that Coon got into an argument with another kid about the existence of God. Coon said he didn’t believe in or respect God, and that he worshiped Marilyn Manson and flipped off the other kid. A fight ensued after school and Coon got his ass beat. Both kids were suspended, but Coon couldn’t let it go…
“I’m going to get you,” he warned his tormentor. “I will get you.”
Of course, some kids are saying that Coon was “picked on”. Those two words will be used by the criminal apologists of the world to try to excuse the shooting of four people.
Not surprisingly, Coon also told other kids that he planned to shoot up the school, but as usual, no one took him seriously. Here’s another repetitive lesson from Uncle Trench kids. If someone is talking about shooting up the school, don’t take the chance they’re “just joking”. Tell someone.
Coon has a history of violence and mental issues.
When he was 12, Asa was charged in Juvenile Court with domestic violence. His mother, Lori, had called the police and told them that Asa slapped her and called her a vulgar name. She had been trying to intervene in a fight between Asa and his twin sister Nicole.
Once in court, a magistrate ordered Asa to undergo psychological testing and follow the orders of doctors. The magistrate also ordered the family to undergo therapy together.
Asa immediately refused to obey probation rules. He threw the paperwork on the floor and charged out of the office, nearly knocking his mother to the ground.
During one of his stays in a government facility, he was prescribed Trazodone and Clonodine so we should be hearing from the anti-psychiatry Luddites who think these medications must have caused the shooting.
In 7th grade, he was suspended for trying to hurt another student.
He fooled a home detention officer into thinking he was getting better.
Last November, Asa had completed his counseling, anger management classes and community service. After five months without incident, he was released from probation.
Sounds like he was just biding his time.
Then the article goes on to detail how smart he was, and how special he was, and how he grew up in a rough neighborhood and a broken home. I’ve got three words for that. I DON’T CARE. None of that matters. The only thing that matters is that he shot four people because he was a selfish, egotistical little twit.
The most messed up part is that he killed himself before being apprehended. If he had been caught, he probably would have gotten a slap on the wrist since he was a juvenile and nobody died.
But the question is going to come as it always does about how this could have been prevented. It’s simple really. Be better parents to your kids and take these kinds of threats seriously. That’s all there really is to it.
Craigslist pimp from Queens busted:
Carlton “Privilege” Simons, 25, of Queens, and Shernett “Divine” Reevey, 24, of Charlotte, N.C., were convicted late Friday of luring the teenage student from her home with promises of money and introductions to rap celebrities.
Once in New York, however, the 18-year-old woman was physically and verbally abused, forced to pose for provocative photographs later posted to Craigslist and to prostitute herself at hotels and at a “track,” or a location frequented by sex workers and their customers from Lexington to Park Avenue on 48th Street.
Still think prostitution is a victimless crime?
Police Chief: Teen shoots four; kills self at Cleveland high school:
The gunman has been identified as 14-year-old Asa Coon. He was armed with two revolvers, a .22 and a .38. No word yet on where he obtained the guns. He was also carrying a box of ammo and several knives.
Coon had a record too…
Coon had a previous arrest last year for a domestic violence incident and police had been to his home before for incidents that involved weapons, according to McGrath.
That would be my leading guess as to where he got the weapons.
Trial date set in MySpace sex assault case:
You all remember Pete Solis, don’t you? He was the catalyst behind the infamous $30M lawsuit against MySpace. Solis was the one who allegedly sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl who he met over MySpace. Which led the victim’s mother to file one of the most frivolous lawsuits of all time. Anyway, Solis’ trial date for the sexual assault is set to start on January 28th.
MySpace Message Tips Parents Off To Child’s Secret Meeting:
18-year-old Frank Kelley of Millville, New Jersey was arrested after using MySpace to set up a meeting with a 12-year-old girl.
The unnamed victim’s parents told police they found their child with Frank Kelley at Mulligan Field — a local recreation park located in the north end of the Villas section of Lower Township, Cape May County — after finding messages between the two on a computer.
The article doesn’t state what happened at the meeting, but Kelley was charged with aggravated sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child.
Teenage gunman wounds four in Ohio high school:
I’m not quite ready to bestow the M-title on him just yet, but it’s coming awfully damn close…
Local media reported the student, who was described as a loner, was frustrated after being suspended from school for getting into a fight on Tuesday.
“I know that dude was crazy. We just knew it. You know when people are crazy, come on, man,” one student who fled at the sound of gunshots told CNN.
“He was in my class … He always wore a trench coat.”
The boy was described by other students as a loner and devil worshipper who had made jokes about shooting other students in front of teachers.
“I didn’t think he meant it,” another unidentified student told news station WKYC. “I thought he just said it because he wanted to be popular.”
This punk was a walking stereotype. There’s only one element missing from the M-equation, and I’m sure we’ll hear it any day.