Teenager held over alleged death plot
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December 17, 2012, Monday
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JUST hours before the horror in Connecticut, police in Oklahoma arrested a teenager for allegedly plotting to attack his high school and trying to recruit classmates to help him.
Police in Bartlesville, about 65 kilometers north of Tulsa, arrested 18-year-old Sammie Eaglebear Chavez shortly before 5am on Friday on charges of conspiring to cause serious bodily harm or death. He is due in court on January 11.
Layne Jones, an assistant principal at the school, is said to have alerted police to the alleged plot on Thursday, according to a probable cause statement. A student told authorities Chavez had tried to "recruit other students to assist him with carrying out a plan to lure students into the school auditorium where he planned to begin shooting them after chaining the doors shut," Bartlesville Police Lieutenant Kevin Ickleberry wrote in the affidavit.
Chavez told students he planned to detonate bombs when police arrived, and threatened to kill those who didn't want to join him, police wrote.
Investigators said Chavez told a teacher earlier this month he had bought a .45-caliber gun and had been learning to shoot it. The affidavit also said Chavez had been trying to obtain a diagram of school facilities and had used a school computer to seek information on a .22-caliber rifle that could be mounted on a machine gun platform.
Students said they saw him researching the 1999 Columbine High School massacre, in which 12 Colorado students and a teacher were murdered by two students who also died.
Police in Bartlesville, about 65 kilometers north of Tulsa, arrested 18-year-old Sammie Eaglebear Chavez shortly before 5am on Friday on charges of conspiring to cause serious bodily harm or death. He is due in court on January 11.
Layne Jones, an assistant principal at the school, is said to have alerted police to the alleged plot on Thursday, according to a probable cause statement. A student told authorities Chavez had tried to "recruit other students to assist him with carrying out a plan to lure students into the school auditorium where he planned to begin shooting them after chaining the doors shut," Bartlesville Police Lieutenant Kevin Ickleberry wrote in the affidavit.
Chavez told students he planned to detonate bombs when police arrived, and threatened to kill those who didn't want to join him, police wrote.
Investigators said Chavez told a teacher earlier this month he had bought a .45-caliber gun and had been learning to shoot it. The affidavit also said Chavez had been trying to obtain a diagram of school facilities and had used a school computer to seek information on a .22-caliber rifle that could be mounted on a machine gun platform.
Students said they saw him researching the 1999 Columbine High School massacre, in which 12 Colorado students and a teacher were murdered by two students who also died.
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