A teen from Alabama, Derek Shrout, a white supremacist made paper entries in relation to a plan to bombard colleagues three days after the Newtown school mass murder and began constructing little domestic explosives.
Russell County Sheriff Heath Taylor said he believed the gunfire at Sandy Hook Elementary was a reason since the first appointment in the boy’s diary telling the plan was Dec. 17, three days following the Connecticut murders.
Seventeen-year-old Derek is charged with attempted physical attack once authorities say he planned to make use of home-produced explosives to show aggression to colleague students at Russell County High School.
The young man told investigators that he’s a white supremacist and five of the six students he named in his diary are black. The diary was found by an educator, who gave it over to authorities.
A seek out of Shrout’s residence found more than a few undersized tobacco cans and two big cans, all with holes drilled in them and containing pellets, according to authorities. All they needed were black powder and fuses to turn into explosives. The diary also purportedly mentioned using firearms. Shrout’s father owned a small amount of domestic guns, such as a hunting rifle, a shotgun and a handgun.
The Sheriff says:
He just talks about some students, he specifically named six students and one faculty member and he talked about weapons and the amounts of ammunition for each weapon that he would use if he attacked the school.
When you go to his house and you start finding the actual devices that he talked about being made, no, it’s not fiction anymore,” “Those devices were – all they needed was the black powder and the fuse – he had put a lot of time and thought into that.
The adolescent, who is skinny and wears glasses, didn’t say that much through a preliminary court appearance on Monday. A bond was set at $75,000 and he was set free.
The judge ordered the kid not to get in touch with any person at his school, students or teachers, and not to employ Internet with no parental control. He also ought to carry an ankle monitoring gadget.
His attorney said the case was “blown a little out of proportion.”
He added:
Our position is that our client had no intention to harm anybody.
David Kelly, the senior class president of Derek’s class, recalls:
At first through JROTC, he was confident, well-rounded, but as time went by, he was doing the whole white power thing.
Another JROTC classmate, David White, said:
I saw that he was taking it more serious than anything, he started getting real deep into it, and he had a little group of people doing it with him. So, I thought it was getting to where I shouldn’t be around it, so I started not even hanging out with him for a long time.
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