MySpace threat in Nevada
Online Columbine comments net one arrest:
With school either starting or already started in parts of the country it should come as no surprise that the threats are already starting.
This time a 14-year-old from Clark County, Nevada, the same county Las Vegas is in, has been arrested for a threat posted on MySpace…
With a week left before the first day of school in the Clark County School District, Henderson police arrested a 14-year-old boy on allegations of sending threats and comments referring to the 1999 Columbine school shooting via the Internet to another youth.
The teen, who was not identified, also had surveillance footage of the Columbine shooting on his home computer, said officer Todd Rasmussen, spokesman for the Henderson police.Advertisement
The teen titled his MySpace.com Web page “R.I.P. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold,” Rasmussen said.
Authorities were alerted to the threats about 2 p.m. Wednesday when the relative of a teen who received a message from the 14-year-old called the police, Rasmussen said.
The 14-year-old sent a message from his MySpace.com account that stated, ” ‘Would you be down for some Columbine-like (expletive),’ ” Rasmussen said.
” ‘Like what we talking?’ ” the other youth asked, Rasmussen said.
” ‘I can’t talk to you online about it. But how can I hit you up offline,’ ” the 14-year-old wrote back, Rasmussen said.
The police went to the 14-year-old’s house and searched his home computer. The youth was at the house and was wearing a shirt that had the words “Kill Hate Destroy” printed on it, Rasmussen said.
Authorities found video footage of the Columbine massacre on the 14-year-old’s computer, he said. The footage, taken by Columbine school surveillance cameras, showed Klebold and Harris standing in the school’s cafeteria holding guns.
The same old question has to be asked…parents? I mean my parents were pretty cool in letting me wear Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath t-shirts but none of them ever said KILL. Also I wonder how the parents felt that their little mutant had a cache of the typical Harris and Klebold mutant fan material on his computer. Did they not know or just not care?
And I’m sure I’ll get all the mutants stating that he was bullied. To them I offer this…
Rasmussen said detectives learned that in previous school years the boy had been suspended from school for prior incidents that included fighting, threatening other students and using slurs. They searched his home “and no weapons were recovered,” police said.
Police said the teen had access to weapons in the past, but did not elaborate.
Sounds pretty much like a bully himself huh?
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