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(Message started by: Redd715 on Sep 16^th, 2006, 4:44pm)

Title: Chicago Tribune..
Post by Redd715 on Sep 16^th, 2006, 4:44pm

Third person arrested in plan against Green Bay high school

By ROBERT IMRIE
Associated Press Writer
Published September 16, 2006, 11:48 AM CDT

GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Police have arrested a third person in a foiled Columbine-style plan to bomb and shoot students at a local high school, investigators said Saturday.

Two 17-year-olds were arrested Thursday at East High School after a student went to an associate principal. A detective said Friday that one boy wanted to enact the plan Thursday but the other talked him out of it.

Bradley P. Netwel, 18, was arrested Friday for conspiracy to commit homicide and conspiracy to commit arson, according to a police department news release Saturday.

Police learned from interviews that Netwel, a former student at the school and a friend of the 17-year-olds, participated in the planning, police said.

William C. Cornell and Shawn R. Sturtz were arrested Thursday for suspicion of conspiracy to commit first-degree intentional homicide and conspiracy to commit arson. Brown County District Attorney John Zakowski said he planned to file charges Thursday.

Court Commissioner Jane Sequin ordered the 17-year-olds jailed on $500,000 bond Friday.

The three were being held in the Brown County Jail Saturday. Netwel was scheduled to make an initial court appearance Monday.

East High School Principal Ed Dorff said Saturday he was not surprised at the third arrest.

"I don't know how much deeper this goes," he said. "We knew there was contact with others. We didn't know the level of contact."

The student who came forward to alert authorities to the plan asked school officials to remain anonymous, he said.

"I don't know if it's coming from an issue of fear, an issue of shyness, an issue of humility," he said.

Police Detective Tom Molitor testified at a hearing Friday that the 17-year-olds, who are seniors, told police that they had been plotting the massacre for several years.

They planned to set off bombs near bathrooms, light the exits on fire with jelled gasoline so no one could escape and shoot people they had problems with, Molitor said.

Police found nine rifles and shotguns, a handgun, about 20 "crudely made" explosive devices, camouflage clothing, gas masks, two-way radios and hundreds of rounds of ammunition at Cornell's house, Police Capt. Lisa Sterr said. She said Cornell had made several of the improvised explosive devices about two months ago.

At Sturtz's home, police found knives and ammunition, Sterr said.

The two teens had long been fascinated by the April 1999 Columbine massacre in Littleton, Colo., in which two students armed with guns, knives and bombs killed 12 classmates and a teacher before killing themselves, Sterr said.

Tiffany Brittain, 18, said Saturday that she hung out with Sturtz and Cornell. She called the pair quiet. She said she did hear them talking about suicide and attacking the school.

"They told me and I thought they were joking. I never took it seriously," she said. "If they did it they wanted to go out by cops suicide."

She said she and her friends were shocked by the arrests.

"Everyone is sad," she said.

East High School, a three-story structure several blocks east of downtown Green Bay, is one of the original high schools in this city of about 102,000 people. Tucked behind it is City Stadium, home of the Green Bay Packers from 1925 until 1956, when Lambeau Field was built.

Some members of the school's class of 1956 toured their alma mater Saturday as part of their 50th reunion.

Soundra Collins said nothing like the plot uncovered at the school this week would have occurred when she was a student.

"I just thought, 'How can this be happening with our kids?"' she said, indicating her mother also attended East High School.

But classmate Jim Kiefert, 68, who spent 30 years in school administration in Washington and Oregon, said school trouble, including shootings, has always occurred but these days it gets more attention.

"There were bad things when I was here. There were kids who did some wild and wooly things. Thank God it didn't get national press," he said.

Title: Re: Chicago Tribune..
Post by Jonny on Sep 16^th, 2006, 5:31pm

"intentional homicide".....Huh?

Title: Re: Chicago Tribune..
Post by Redd715 on Sep 16^th, 2006, 7:07pm

Don't shoot the messenger Bud! Just relaying info.

Title: Re: Chicago Tribune..
Post by Jonny on Sep 16^th, 2006, 7:35pm

Heavy jail time for these bastards!!!!

Title: Re: Chicago Tribune..
Post by Carl_D on Sep 16^th, 2006, 7:38pm

We just had a school shooting over in Missouri this past week. A kid texted a friend that he was going to kill himself. they called the police and the kid had a shotgun at the school. He wouldn't drop it and so they shot him twice.

The world has gone fucking mad!

Title: Re: Chicago Tribune..
Post by Jonny on Sep 16^th, 2006, 7:41pm

on 09/16/06 at 19:38:23, Carl_D wrote:

He wouldn't drop it and so they shot him twice.

That dont seem mad to me, bro!

Title: Re: Chicago Tribune..
Post by Carl_D on Sep 16^th, 2006, 8:14pm

on 09/16/06 at 19:41:46, Jonny wrote:

That dont seem mad to me, bro!

That's not what I meant. They did good taking him out. I'm saying with all these school shootings, we didn't have that shit back in my day. But then again schools were more laxed in the 80's and everybody just wanted to have a good time. If you got mad at somebody, you played a prank or something. This shit didn't get out of hand until the 90's.
Now, it's just madness.