Tag: school shooting plot

  • Dillon Cossey admits to plot

    Dillon Cossey admits to plot

    Teen Confesses To Columbine-Style Attack Plot:

    14-year-old Dillon Cossey admitted to plotting an attack against Plymouth-Whitemarsh High School in court yesterday. He could be held in juvenile detention for as long as seven years.

    The judge who he appeared before had some words for his parents as well…

    Dillon Cossey will receive regular evaluations by the Judge Paul Tressler.

    “I’m going to make it clear to you and your parents, if you get to the point where you’re ready to get home, but they’re not worthy of having you, I’ll send you somewhere else” such as to a relative or foster home, Tressler told Cossey.

    Cossey’s parents are facing charges of helping him amass his weapons cache.

    It also seems that Cossey was a mutant of the highest order…

    The District Attorney said the teen idolized the two teens in the Columbine shooting, going so far as to nickname one of his own guns “Reb” after Eric Harris.

    All of this going in under a roof where he was allegedly homeschooled.

  • Cossey charged as juvenile

    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 in his arsenal, to begin with. For parents that were allegedly homeschooling their kid, they don’t seem too bright.

  • Dillon Cossey in court

    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

    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.

  • MontCo mutant’s MySpace and maternal misadventures

    MontCo mutant’s MySpace and maternal misadventures

    Online musings bent toward guns, violence:

    It seems that our homeschooled mutant from yesterday had a MySpace and loved to flaunt his mutantcy.

    His username, in part, was “the killer.”

    His motto: “Mess with the best, Die like the rest.”

    His interests: “Shooting . . . war, the North Hollywood shoot-out, bank robbers, the Columbine massacre.”

    The North Hollywood Shootout? That’s a new one. For those of you who don’t know, The North Hollywood Shootout took place 10 years ago between armored bank robbers and the LAPD, in which the LAPD were massively outgunned by the bank robbers.

    There’s a very famous video of one of the gunmen just firing repeatedly into a police car. I tried to find it on YouTube, but it was just filled with mutant-like tributes to the gunmen. But I digress…

    The ramblings, riddled with grammar and spelling errors, profanity and teen bravado, suggest the teen is deeply disturbed and fantasizes about hurting people. The Daily News is withholding his name because he is a juvenile.

    Nothing new there.

    “I love to blow s— up, and I’m a bit of a merc,” he wrote in the “About Me” section of his page.

    Yeah, because the world is just filled with 14-year-old mercenaries.

    In his latest blog entry, posted in March, the boy wrote: “I am pretymuch the posterboy for the person that rests upon the line between Geineus and Madman/Pycopath, (23 ppl just left the page . . . ) feel free to messege me, and dont tell me how carzy I am, belive me I know, I have to live with myself 24 f—— 7. welcome to hell!!!! O and as 4 my personal saying . . . if at first you dont sucseed, use the armor piercing rounds.”

    In precious few postings, he seems like a typical teenager. He admits he adores the singer Avril Lavigne and the movie “Star Wars.” He also inflated his age to 17.

    But in other posts he lists his heroes as Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, the Colorado teens who gunned down 37 people, 13 fatally, in their high school in 1999.

    And, as other heroes, two bank robbers who got into a 1997 shootout with Los Angeles police, and two World War II snipers.

    He also posted videos – one with a song apparently titled “Stray Bullet” – showing fictionalized school shootings. One video shows a scowling young gunman hunting down victims, shooting some at point-blank range, in a school library, a cafeteria, a hallway and classrooms.

    Also posted is a link to a Web site memorializing Harris and Klebold.

    Of course, he did. All the mutants do.

    He describes himself as a soldier, writing: “Im a soldier, my favorit rifle is the AK-47, my fav handguns are the M-92-F Beretta, and the Colt.45-m-1911-A-1.”

    He also claimed to be leader of the I.C.A. Military Group, which he explains only as the “Imperial Cobra Army.”

    So now he thinks he’s Cobra Commander?

    We always ask where are the parents when something like this goes down. Well, in this case, the parents were almost accomplices.

    In December 2005, the boy’s father wanted to get his son a gun for his birthday. He went to Dick’s Sporting Goods on Chemical Road in Plymouth Township. He filled out an application for a .22-caliber rifle and lied about his criminal record, saying he had never been convicted of a felony.

    In fact, the dad pleaded guilty in 1981 to first-degree manslaughter for driving while drunk and killing someone in a collision in Oklahoma City. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison and released in 1987. Ironically, according to court documents, the father was also a deserter from the Marine Corps.

    It seems the mutant doesn’t slink too far from the sewer.

    His father’s name is Frank E. Cossey. His Mom, Michele Cossey, is also being charged.

    Michele Cossey bought her home-schooled son a .22-caliber handgun, a .22-caliber rifle and a 9 mm semiautomatic rifle, authorities said.

    That’s some mighty fine parenting right there. Like I said before, it’s obvious that the kid’s homeschooling was suspect, since these homeschoolers don’t have the best judgment in the world.

  • Plymouth Whitemarsh plotter ID’d

    Plymouth Whitemarsh plotter ID’d

    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.

  • Home schooled kid planned school shooting

    Home schooled kid planned school shooting

    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.

  • Tobin Kerns found guilty

    Tobin Kerns found guilty

    Marshfield teen found guilty of helping to plan Columbine-style attack:

    Today, Tobin Kerns was convicted of conspiracy to commit murder and threatening to use deadly weapons. After the verdict, Tobin was remanded to a juvenile facility. His sentencing is scheduled for November 5th.

    A personal note to Judge Louis Coffin. You have made a tragic mistake and imprisoned an innocent kid.

    Tobin, I’m sorry.

  • Tobin Kerns to finally learn his fate?

    Tobin Kerns to finally learn his fate?

    Kerns hearing set for Thursday:

    Could there finally be a resolution to the case of Tobin Kerns? Could his long nightmare finally be over, or has it just begun?

    For those of you new to the party, Tobin Kerns was arrested back in 2004 for allegedly plotting against his high school, Marshfield High in Massachusetts. At the time of his arrest, I thought he was just another mutant. However, after receiving comments and e-mails from his family and friends and doing a little research on my own, I am convinced that Tobin is innocent.

    There have been many delays in reaching a resolution for this case. We just may find out tomorrow what Tobin’s fate is.

    Plymouth Juvenile Court Judge Louis Coffin has scheduled a hearing for Thursday, Sept. 27, at 2 p.m. in the case of former Marshfield High School student Toby Kerns, accused of plotting a Columbine-style attack at the school.

    Kerns, 19, was tried as a youthful offender in juvenile court last October, but Coffin did not issue a verdict while waiting for a ruling from the Supreme Judicial Court on the validity of one of the charges against him.

    The SJC ruled Aug. 9 that Kerns should be charged on the basis of a state law passed in response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, after Coffin had indicated he might apply a different statute.

    Kerns was indicted in 2004 on charges of conspiracy to commit murder, promotion of anarchy and the threatened use of deadly weapons at a school, which was the disputed charge. Coffin dismissed the anarchy charge during the trial.

    While this is all going on, the man who I believe to be the true culprit, Joe Nee, son of the head of the Boston Police union, has barely even sniffed a courtroom…

    Alleged co-conspirator Joseph Nee, 21, was indicted on the same charges, but his case has not yet gone to trial. He will be tried as an adult.

    No word on when Nee’s court date is yet.

    I encourage you to read the archives about this case.

    Good luck Tobin.

  • Supreme Judicial Court sides with Marshfield prosecutors

    Supreme Judicial Court sides with Marshfield prosecutors

    SJC rules that 9/11 terrorism law applies to Marshfield teens:

    Ten months after the trial of Tobin Kerns officially ended, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has finally ruled on the law that held up Tobins’ verdict.

    In a key victory for Plymouth prosecutors, the state’s high court outlined today how a new law aimed at terrorist conspiracies should apply to two teenagers charged with plotting a Columbine-style attack on Marshfield High School in 2004.

    In a unanimous opinion, the Supreme Judicial Court said the law was crafted to punish people who discuss violent attacks on public places or against individuals. The SJC said for someone to be convicted, prosecutors do not have to prove that the intended target somehow learns about the attack. The court said prosecutors cannot use evidence from co-conspirators to prove their case, but can draw on witnesses who learned about the threats. Today’s ruling is believed to be the first time the SJC provided guidance to judges on how to interpret the five-year-old statute.

    I hate to say it, but this does not bode well for Tobin. If any silver lining can be found in this black cloud is this ruling will apply to Joe Nee as well.

    No word yet when the judge will deliver Tobin’s verdict.