WASECA, MINNESOTA — A Minnesota teen intending to kill at least 40 people, including his family and classmates, has been charged after he confessed his chilling plans to investigators when a suspicious member of the public alerted police.
CNN reports that in the summer of 2013, John LaDue began detonating homemade bombs all around the town of Waseca, testing them over the next nine months.
The 17-year-old says he was preparing to carry out a massacre at his school, and would start by killing his family and setting a fire in town to distract authorities.
He planned to hide pressure cooker bombs filled with ball bearings, buckshot, and screws in recycling bins at the school, then detonate them remotely during a passing period. Those not killed by the explosion would be finished off using molotov cocktails, pipe bombs, and a rifle, according to The New Yorker. He expected to be killed in a shootout with police.
LaDue's plans were thwarted in April 2014 after a woman reported a suspected break-in at a storage facility near her home. Police responding to the call found him in a storage locker amidst various bomb-making materials.
He confessed his plans after a lengthy interrogation, admitting he studied other school shootings and idolized Columbine High School killers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. Authorities who searched his house later recovered firearms and ready-made explosives in his bedroom.
LaDue pleaded guilty to a single felony count of possessing an explosive device in September, after a judge dismissed the initial charges of attempted murder and property damage against him, reports the Star Tribune.
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