Southern Miss suspect says threat was misunderstanding
Suspect: Threat charges a ‘misunderstanding’:
The other day I posted about USM student Yuri Wainwright. He was arrested for allegedly making a threat against USM on the internet. He’s being held on $1M bond. He spoke to a local TV station.
The 2000 Oak Grove graduate denied to 7 ON YOUR SIDE’s Pamela Weaver that he did anything wrong or was planning violence.
“So you were not planning an attack on Southern Miss?” Weaver asked.
“No.”
“What about all the weapons you had?”
“I just like to collect guns.”
“They say they have pretty hard, concrete evidence, your bond was set at a million dollars?”
“Things are really tense these times with all of the stuff happening at Virginia Tech so I can understand their overreaction on their part.”
Here’s what I don’t get…
An incident Hopkins says Wainwright was fully capable of carrying out. Authorities say they seized the Oak Grove native’s home computer, as well as shotguns and semi-automatic handguns.
“This individual was strongly considering some type of action, but when, I couldn’t tell you for sure,” he says. “But fortunately the information got to us before it culminated into that.”
Hopkins says the suspect’s MySpace page discussed the April 20, 1999, massacre at Columbine High School and gave authorities the definite indication Wainwright was planning an attack at Southern Miss.
I didn’t see any mention of Columbine on his MySpace although he does have an unnatural reaction to Jessica Simpson.
I think I’ll keep an eye on this one.
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