TheTrenchcoat Chronicles

Tag: school shooting plot

  • Md. suspect charged with carjacking

    Man, 18, in firearms case faces carjacking charge:

    The kid from Bethesda, Maryland who may or may not have been trying to shoot his teachers is now accused of another crime, carjacking.

    Colin McKenzie-Gude is alleged to have carjacked a 78-year-old man at the mall last week.

    According to this article, McKenzie-Gude carjacked the man on the same day police tried to question him about the plot. His lawyer states this was not an attempt to flee. Uh-huh. Right.

    Anyway, there’s also a dispute of when the crime for the explosives charge happened. The other suspect, the unnamed 17-year-old, has changed his story saying they detonated the explosives in November not July. If that is true McKenzie-Gude could be charged as a juvenile because that would have made him 17 at the time.

    Accused teen had fake CIA ID, map of motorcade :

    McKenzie-Gude also had ‘forged’ CIA identification and another fake ID that said he was Michael Landry, a U.S. contractor with protections from the Geneva Conventions.

    So now he’s now probably looking at federal charges too.

  • Possible plot in Maryland

    Teen in Gun Raid Had Teacher List:

    What do you get when you take a cache of illegally purchased guns, add some explosive devices and throw in a list of teachers’ names and addresses? You get 18-year-old Colin McKenzie-Gude of Bethesda, Maryland.

    It’s unknown yet if this was some kind of murder or school shooting plot. However, McKenzie-Gude’s cache consisted of weapons that were bought by his father for him that are illegal for someone under 21 to own under Maryland law. His father, 62-year-old Joseph L. Gude, was also arrested for buying his son the illegal weapons.

    What muddles things up is that McKenzie-Gude was on the rifle team for St. John’s College High School, a private school in Washington, D.C. The addresses for the teachers were all from St. John’s.

    Then there are the bomb-making materials for which a second teen was also arrested. The second teen is an unnamed 17-year-old from Gaithersburg, MD. It’s alleged that the 17-year-old and McKenzie-Gude detonated homemade explosive devices in the woods.

    And in case you were wondering how much explosives were found…

    Detectives also recovered 50 pounds of chemicals, several gallons of liquid material and components that can be used to make homemade explosives, according to the Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service.

    Too many coincidences if you ask me.

    I’ll bring more to you as details become available and as time permits.

  • Russell Frantom sentenced

    Teen accused of planning Columbine-style attack at Penn sentenced:

    Russell James Frantom IV was sentenced yesterday for his part in a plot to attack Penn High school in Indiana. He was told he could be held in juvenile detention until he’s 21. So I guess it wasn’t much of a sentence but more like a suggestion. Anyway, he’ll be spending some time in a “boy’s school”.

    He apologized and said he would have never gone through with the plan. Uh-huh. That’s what they all say.

    Even his mom is happy with the sentence…

    “I feel comfortable with the decision. I think he can go on and learn from his mistake and come out a stronger person and maybe a better person. That’s what i can hope for,” Kelly Stetler tells NewsCenter 16.

    We can only hope.

    No word if he’ll testify against his interstate cohort Lee Billi.

  • Is Lee Billi incompetent?

    Court considers plot defendant’s mental health:

    The world’s oldest mutant, 33-year-old Lee Billi of Ohio, is allegedly having defendant competency issues. That means that Billi may not be ruled mentally competent enough to help his own defense.

    If you’ll recall Billi was involved in an interstate plot to commit school shootings with an Indiana teen at Penn High School. When investigators combed through his computer they also found an alleged cache of child porn.

    If he’s mentally incompetent than lock him in a cell and tell him it’s camp.

  • Dillon Cossey’s mom to undergo psych exam

    Mother of attack plot teen to be evaluated:

    The Mother of Dillon Cossey, Michele Cossey and the woman who supplied him with the guns, has been court ordered to undergo a psych eval. Michele Cossey’s attorney declined to say the reason he requested the evaluation. The prosecutors did not object to the defense’s request.

    Personally, I don’t think she’s crazy, she’s just a bad parent.

  • Newington suspect sentenced

    Columbine-Style Attack Plotter Sent To Prison:

    The suspect in the plot to attack Newington High School in Connecticut was sentenced yesterday. Frank Fechteler was given a sentence of 12 years behind bars that will be suspended after 3 and 5 years probation.

    The article goes into detail about how Fechteler and his attorney talk about how it was “the old Frank” that was capable of crimes like this but “the new Frank” is much different. On the stand Fechteler even said he’ll never commit another crime again.

    That kind of reminds me about the movie Strangeland when Dee Snider’s character claims that he’s been rehabilitated only to kill again.

    New Frank and old Frank are the same Frank in my opinion.

  • Second fry cook sentenced

    Teen in Connetquot school plot avoids jail:

    17-year-old Michael McDonough, he of the Fry Cook Plot against Connetquot High School in Long Island, has pleaded guilty to charges of first-degree reckless endangerment and fourth-degree conspiracy.

    Under the plea, McDonough avoids jail time but must remain on probation for 5 years. If he violates his probation the judge has threatened to send him to an upstate New York prison, you know, like Attica or Sing Sing.

    McDonough apologized in court and prosecutors seem to be happy with his progress since his arrest.

  • Penn High plotter pleads guilty

    Teen accused in Columbine-style plot pleads guilty:

    Russell James Frantom has pleaded guilty to a juvenile count of conspiracy to commit murder. As you may know Frantom was arrested for plotting an attack against Penn High School in Indiana. Frantom could be held until his 21st birthday.

    Frantom’s mom tried to get him released into her custody but the judge was having none of that.

    She told Brueseke the teen had moved out of her house after an argument and first moved in with her father, then stayed with his uncle after her father died.

    She said she was unaware he had illegal snakes or had been spending so much time on the computer.

    “A lot of things were going on I didn’t know about,” she said.

    “So a little too much freedom and lack of supervision,” Brueseke asked.

    “Way too much,” the mother replied.

    When did parents give up control?

  • The Smoking Gun on Lee Billi and Russel Frantom

    “I Wanna Break The Current Shooting Record”:

    The Smoking Gun has pictures of the search warrant affidavit used to seize evidence from Lee Billi. It also lists evidence that was seized from his MySpace pal Russell Frantom.

    The page that particularly drew my attention was this one that has some of Russell Frantom’s ramblings from his journal. Typical ravings from a mutant.

  • Instant Recognition

    Boy wrote of desire to kill many at Indiana school:

    The teen accused in the plot against Penn High School, Russell Frantom, wrote in his notebook that he wanted instant recognition for breaking the “school shooting record”.

    “I wanna break the current shooting record. I wanna get instant recognition. The only thing that stops me is the fact of being put in jail forever, or having to kill myself, or getting killed by an officer. I could kill anyone without feeling sorry because society sucks!!!”

    According to the article, he started having these kinds of violent thoughts after his girlfriend broke up with him.

    Just like every shooter and would be shooter before him he’s a selfish prick with the emotional stability of a marshmallow and an inflated sense of entitlement. When parents and educators coddle kids like Frantom they end up believing that nothing bad is ever supposed to happen to them. When it finally does this the result.

    Life is hard and it’s not fair, deal with it.