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« on: August 14, 2009, 07:17:42 PM » |
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There have been numerous school shootings or similar planned incidents since 4-20-99 that refer to or are inspired by Columbine.
"It is obvious that these guys wanted to become cult heroes of some kind," Deputy District Attorney Steve Jensen told the Denver Post.
They have apparently succeeded, according to the evidence:
4-28-99
Todd Cameron Smith, Taber, Alberta
"Ever since the shooting at Columbine in Colorado all I've been able to think about is doing this."
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5-20-99
--T.J. Solomon, 15, Conyers, GA Heritage High, 6 wounded
He became obsessed with Columbine; Most of the parties who dealt with him agree that Columbine played a key role in stimulating his behavior.
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12-6-99
Fort Gibson, OK
Seth Trickey,13 wounds 4 classmates with handgun. "Trickey... was deeply influenced by the Columbine shootings."
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2-21-00
POTSDAM, Germany -- Police arrest a 16-year-old girl for allegedly planning a bloodbath at her school on the anniversary of the Columbine High School shootings. "She regarded the Littleton shooters as heroes. During a search of her home the cops found videos and newspaper articles about Columbine."
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4-20-00
Stabbing attacks in an Ottawa-area high school -- on the anniversary of the
Columbine massacre in Colorado -- left five people wounded.
According to an article in the Ottawa Citizen, a 15-year-old boy, who was teased mercilessly by his classmates, became obsessed with the Columbine school massacre and the violent perpetrators of the tragic event. He posted pictures of the young men in his lockers and began counting down the days until the anniversary.
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1-20-01
Al DeGuzman, De Anza Community College, Cupertino, CA (planned)
Investigators are alleged to have also recovered an audiocassette on which DeGuzman expresses sympathy for Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, several articles about the shootings and notes allegedly written by DeGuzman in praise of Klebold and Harris.
"Eric Harris is God. He's my savior," was alleged to have been written on his website.
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2-5-01
Hoyt, KS Royal Valley High School
Three students, ages 18, 17, and 16, were arrested for plotting an attack on their high school
They often talked of the Columbine massacre.... they seemed to become obsessed.
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2-8-01
Preston Junior High School, Ft. Collins, CO
Three teenage boys were jailed on charges that they planned to copy
the deadly Columbine attack at their junior high school in Fort Collins. Police found evidence hauntingly similar to that found in the aftermath of the Columbine shooting. Was planned for 4-20-01.
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3-5-01
Santee Santana High School
The San Diego district attorney says Andy Williams, the suspect in the killings...was obsessed with Columbine.
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3-22-01
Jason Hoffman,18, Granite Hills HS, San Diego, CA, arrested after shooting up his school.
He had commented to another student that he was "planning another Columbine."
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October, 2001
Four teens from New Bedford, Massachusetts are arrested for planning an attack on New Bedford High School. They said specifically it would be bigger than Columbine."
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4-26-02
Robert Steinhauser, Gutenburg Gymansium, Erfurt, Germany
After a search of Erfurt shooter Robert Steinhauser's computer, police allegedly found extensive documentation on the Colmbine massacre.
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8-20-02
Bomb plot at high school thwarted in North Dallas, TX
The unnamed youth had a poster about the Columbine shooting in his room.
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9-18-03
Atlanta, GA A 14-year-old Lovejoy High School student was arrested after police said he planned a Columbine-style massacre at the school. The boy was arrested after students told school officials that he tried to recruit them to take part in a plan to "make history by turning Lovejoy into another Columbine."
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1-13-04
Dutchtown, LA Two high school students were arrested and accused of creating an elaborate plan to re-create the bloody Columbine High School massacre on its five-year anniversary in April(4-20-04). "Apparently, they were planning to wake up at 4:20 a.m. on April 20 of this year to do this."
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3-16-04
Josh Magee, Malcolm High School, Malcolm, Nebraska
Arrested after pipe bombs and a rifle were found in his car outside school as he contemplated attacking. Parents and school officials in this tiny town north of Lincoln said Magee often spoke about the 1999 Columbine shootings... "He asked them in class last week if they knew who Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were. Then he said, `I know them.'"
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6-18-04
Bull Run Middle School, GAINESVILLE, Prince William County, VA (35 miles west of Washington, D.C.)
Student arrested at school with guns, part of a larger plot to shoot people at school
-the 12-year-old.... had researched the 1999 shootings at Columbine High School in Colorado for a class report.
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9-17-04(planned)
Marshfield High School, Massachusetts teenagers arrested for planning a school attack on the anniversary of Columbine. One wore a t-shirt to school that had pictures of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold that said “Remember the Heroes.”
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9-17-04
Andrew Osantowski, 17, arrested for planning attack at Chippewa Valley High School, Clinton Township(suburban Detroit), Michigan
Online, Andrew compared his plan to attack his high school to the Columbine High School massacre. He copied Eric Harris' writings several times in his monthly journals.
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9-24-04
Rafael S., aka "Junior" 15, Islas Malvinas Middle School No. 2, Carmen de Patagones
--had seen the documentary "Bowling for Columbine" days before the shooting
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10-7-04
Vista Ridge High School, Austin, TX
Police have arrested two Texas teenagers in an alleged plan to attack their school. They allegedly were planning to wear trench coats to hide their weapons just as the Columbine High School killers did. "Their words were, they wanted to 'recreate Columbine.'"
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2-13-05
Robert Bonelli Jr., 24, of Glasco/Saugerties, N.Y.
Shot up Hudson Valley Mall, wounding two people.
In Mr. Bonelli's room, the police found piles of news articles and other accounts, photographs and documents printed from the Internet, all related to the 1999 shootings.
"It would appear that he had a lurid fascination with Columbine and the shooters."
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3-21-05
Jeff Weise, Red Lake HS, Red Lake, MN
The origonal plan called for a group of Red Lake teens--the 'Darkers'--to attack their school on 4-20-05, the sixth anniversary.
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12-15-05
Two teens, 15- and 17, arrested for planning attack at Quartz Hill High School, Lancaster, LACounty.
Located at the home of one boy were pictures of domestic terrorists including the two Columbine killers.
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3-20-06
Rochester Hills, MI
An 18-year-old male high school student was arrested and charged for writing a threat on a bathroom wall to bring a gun to school and start a massacre he called, "Columbine Part Two."
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3-24-06
Foley, AL
Two male high school students, ages 15 and 16, were arrested and charged with planning to carry out a shooting plot at their high school on the 7th anniversary of the Columbine High School attack this upcoming April 20th.
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3-25-06
Seattle Rave Slayer Kyle Huff
Owned a black trenchcoat, had downloaded info on his computer about Columbine.
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4-5-06
Atco, NJ
Four teenagers, ages 14 to 16, students at Winslow Township HS, were arrested and charged in connection with a plot to kill 25 people in their high school lunchroom on the anniversary of the Columbine attack.
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4-17-06
Platte City, MO
Two male students, both age 18, were arrested in connection with a school shooting plot. Their plan included planting explosives and bringing weapons to the school on the seventh anniversary of the Columbine shooting.
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4-20-06
Five Riverton, Kansas high school students have been arrested after police learned they were allegedly planning an attack on the seventh anniversary of the Columbine school massacre, just as Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold did in their deadly 1999 assault.
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8-30-06
Alvaro Rafael Castillo, 19, Orange High School, Hillsborough NC,
Asked why he went to attack the school, Castillo responded: "Columbine. Remember Columbine."
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9-13-06
Kimveer Gill, 25, Montreal, Dawson College
Gill wrote on his blog that he wanted to storm the school on April 20, 2006, seven years to the day after the attack at Columbine High School.
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9-14-06
Two teens arrested for planned attack. William C. Cornell and Shawn R. Sturtz Green Bay East High School, Green Bay Wis.(planned)
The two teens had long been fascinated by the April 1999 Columbine massacre in Littleton, Colorado
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11-20-06
ex-student Sebastain Bosse, 18, Geschwister Scholl School, Emsdetten, Germany
He made a short video about Columbine, taken from snippets of other available Columbine videos.
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4-2-07
Calgary, Canada
14yr old boy arrested after he confessed a plot to murder two of his teachers on the anniversary of the Columbine high school massacre.
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4-16-07
Cho Seung Hui Virginia Tech, Blackburg VA; 33 dead, 15 wounded
While the Governor's panel report traced his violent fantasies to the 1999 shootings at Columbine High School in Colorado. The report said that in a paper in a middle-school English class Mr. Cho indicated that he "wanted to repeat Columbine."
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7-13-07
Connetquot High School students arrested for plan to attack school
The Long Island teens hoped to execute their plan April 20, 2008
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10-10-07
Dillon Cossey, 15, arrested in Columbine-like threat against Plymouth Whitemarsh High School (near Philadelphia, PA)
On his MySpace page Dillon Cossey features tribute videos to the Columbine shooters and includes a still from the surveillance video showing Klebold and Harris in the Columbine cafeteria.
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11-7-07
Pekka Eric Auvinen, Jokela Secondary School, Finland
He exchanged posts with Cossey on a Web site dedicated to the Columbine killers
--....he had showed a great deal of interest in a documentary the class watched in May about the Columbine school shootings in the United States.
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11-28-07
Suburban Poughkeepsie, NY
Three Arlington High School students accused of plotting a Columbine-like assault to take place April 20, 2010. That day will be the 11th anniversary of the attack on Columbine High School.
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12-9-07
Matthew Murray, New Life Church, Colo Springs, CO
His computer had "downloads about the shootings at Columbine..."
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Jan, '08
Patrick J. Gauchel, 28, of Newark, N.J., arrested for sending threatening emails and letters to Kate Battan from JCSO, who worked on the origonal Columbine investigation, and also to the surviving family members of some of the victims. There were shrines in Gauchel's home to Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris.
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3-14-08
Three 13-year-olds, two boys and one girl, arrested for plotting massacre at DeLand Middle School, DeLand, Fla.
The website of the ringleader "is a shrine to Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, the two teens who committed the massacre at Columbine High School.
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4-19-08 and 4-24-08
Russell Frantom(16, of Penn High School in Mishawaka, Ind.) and one Lee Billi(33, of suburban Cleveland, OH) arrested for planning simaltaneous mass attacks, to be carried out 9-11-08.
Authorities said the plot was detected when a school officer discovered Internet postings in which the teen discussed his support for the Columbine High School shooters....
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4-19-08
Ryan Schallenberger, 18
He was arrested after his parents called police when 10 pounds of ammonium nitrate was delivered to their home in Chesterfield, SC. Allegedly planned a suicide attack at Chesterfield HS.
--He called his plot "Columbine III"
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9-23-08
Kauhajoki School of Hospitality Matti Juhani Saari, a 22-year-old student.
Kauhajoki, Finland
Investigators also say they have evidence that 22-year-old Matti Saari was inspired by such events as the US Columbine High School massacre.
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12-29-08
Santorio Harper, 30, an Owings Mills, MD, man was charged with attempted murder after Baltimore County police said they uncovered his plot to commit a "Columbine style" attack at an ITT Technical Institute, where he was a student. Officers seized his handgun, which had been legally purchased, along with documentation of the Columbine incident found in his residence.
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3-15-09
Two teens arrested in Britain for bomb plot at school for 10nth anniversary of Columbine
Prosecutors in the English city of Manchester say the 16-year-old and the 17-year-old had planned to strike on April 20. ...A British police official told The Associated Press that the date was no coincidence.
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3-24-09
Czech teen, 17, arrested for bombing plot against school. The youth made a video inspired by Columbine. ...he has made several announcements that “he would shoot everybody in his class and himself”
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4-16-09
Three Virginia Beach teens under arrest for plotting attack on 4-20-09 at their school, Landstown High School. The ringleader had shown a "fascination" with the Columbine High School shooting and often wore a black trench coat.
Kate Battan: "And they wanted cult followings. They're going to become superstars..... And you know, it worked. They're famous."
These copycat incidents have caused many times the damage in terms of lives and money than the origonal incident ever did. So when you talk of Columbine, I guess the question is, did it ever really end?
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