High School Killing in Ohio

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Suspect in custody

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Witnesses say the alleged gunman who opened fire Monday at an Ohio high school, killing one student and wounding four others, was a bullied loner who may have posted threatening messages to his Twitter account...

Komertz said the alleged shooter was known as an outcast who had apparently been bullied.

I wonder if the kid that got killed was one of the bullies.

[Guest]

Yes, I heard about this on the way home from work today.

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Some people fall victim of too many examples of race superiority misconceptions and complexes.

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UK news

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Teenagers not guilty of plotting Columbine-style school massacre

Matthew Swift and Ross McKnight had faced life for alleged plan to murder teachers and students at Manchester school

Ross McKnight and Matthew Swift leave Manchester crown court as both were cleared of plotting a Columbine-style massacre at their own school. Photograph: Dave Thompson/PA

Police and prosecutors were strongly criticised today for pursuing the case against two teenagers who were cleared of plotting a Columbine-style massacre at their own school.

A jury took just 45 minutes to clear Matthew Swift, 18, and Ross McKnight, 16, of planning to murder teachers and pupils at Audenshaw High School in Greater Manchester.

Following the verdicts, the barrister who defended one of the youngsters said it was an "unnecessary, heavy-handed prosecution" and an expensive waste of public money.

McKnight's father Ray, a serving police officer, said both his son and Swift had gone through "purgatory" and "absolute agony" after spending six months remanded in custody.

The prosecution had claimed that the teenagers had been plotting a gun rampage similar to that carried out by Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who murdered 12 students and a teacher at a school in Columbine in 1999.

Much of the case was based on the pair's journals and diaries, which contained tirades against the school and society and included maps and plans of the school buildings.

Both Harris and Klebold had kept similar documents before their attack.

The police were so convinced of the pair's guilt that they decided to fly two detectives to Colorado ahead of the trial to question the homicide department that investigated the Columbine killings.

The Columbine lead investigator, Kate Battan, was then flown to Manchester and was mooted as a possible prosecution witness, but she was never called to give evidence.

Swift and McKnight were arrested in March, a month before prosecutors claimed they had planned to carry out the alleged attack.

The prosecution said the plan, which the pair had codenamed Project Rainbow, was to have been carried out on 20 April – the 10th anniversary of the Columbine atrocity.

It was also alleged Swift had tried to obtain explosives and was researching how to make firearms at home.

The defence told the jury the journals were the scribblings of two teenage boys with overactive imaginations, and that their thoughts and writing had never gone beyond "fantasy".

Ray McKnight told the court his son was full of "hare-brained" schemes.

Both teenagers were cleared of conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to cause explosions likely to endanger life or cause serious injury to property between November 2007 and 15 March this year following a three-week trial.

Swift fought back tears as the foreman of the jury delivered the verdicts and breathed a sigh of relief as he left the dock. McKnight showed no emotion, standing with his head bowed.

The alleged plot came to light only after McKnight, high on drink and drugs, made a late-night phone call to a girl he was fond of in which he allegedly "confessed" to the plan. The girl told her mother, and police were called.

Officers found the journals and diaries during raids at the teenagers' homes in Denton, Greater Manchester, on 14 March.

McKnight, who referred to himself by the nickname 72, wrote a diary entry reading: "72 + Swift = God and s***loads of dead people."

He went on to talk about the "greatest massacre ever" and killing thousands of people.

Officers found a manual entitled the Anarchist Cookbook at Swift's home. It contained instructions on ingredients to use in explosives, how chemicals could be converted into explosives, and chapters on lethal weapons, boobytraps and Molotov cocktails.

They recovered a safe from Swift's bedroom which contained plans of the school and details of how to use acetone peroxide as a detonator.

Last week Swift told the jury his diary entries were "naive and pathetic ways to channel my teenage angst". He said: "I was 16 with a vivid imagination."

His bookshelves contained Hitler's autobiography, Mein Kampf, and the Turner Diaries, said to have inspired the Columbine killers. Police also found two films about school shootings – Elephant and Zero Day – at home.

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http://news.sky.com/home/uk-news/article/15382699

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Ohio Video:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-02-27/ohio-school-shooting/53267688/1?csp=34news

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