Copycat Shooter wannabe in California
This is happening just south of my town and as of 8:46pm Pacific Time, he is still out there.
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California school told: 'I'll make Virgina Tech look mild'
Email this storyPrint this story Updated 1:35PM Friday April 20, 2007
By Alan Naditz
Police are searching for Jeffery Thomas Carney. Photo / Reuters
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YUBA CITY, California - Teachers locked classroom doors, lowered shades and kept nearly 22,000 school children inside all day in two northern California cities after a man threatened to go on a killing spree inspired by Monday's mass murder at Virginia Tech.
Police patrolled public schools in Yuba City and nearby Marysville 65km north of state capital Sacramento after Jeffery Thomas Carney, who officials said had a criminal record, allegedly said he intended to make the mass slaying at Virginia Tech "look mild."
Local officials say Carney called his pastor at the United Methodist Church on Wednesday evening and said he was armed with an AK-47 rifle, improvised explosive devices and poison and would seek to provoke a confrontation with police to "commit suicide-by-cop."
"At about 8:30am we asked the principals to put all schools in lock-down," said Nancy Aaberg, superintendent of the 12,000-pupil Yuba City Unified School District. "We just kind of felt it was a consistent across-the-board safety measure."
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Advertisement"We actually had police at all of our campuses," she said in an interview. "It was a generic threat; there was no specific threat to any of our specific schools or any other schools from this particular suspect."
Yuba City Officials sent high school students home early. Officials in sister city Marysville across the river also locked down schools, affecting 9700 students, an administrator said.
The Sutter County Sheriff's Department described Carney, 28, as a transient and reportedly a methamphetamine abuser possibly under the influence and exhibiting symptoms of methamphetamine psychosis.
It said Carney has a criminal record including burglary and conspiracy, and was out on bail following a charge of domestic violence against his parents.
His father, reached by telephone, declined to comment.
Carney now faces new state charges of making a terrorist threat, Sutter County Sheriff Jim Denny told reporters.
Virginia Tech student Cho Seung-Hui shot and killed 32 people and himself on the Blacksburg, Virginia, campus on Monday in the deadliest shooting rampage in modern US history. The murders have prompted a series of scares at universities and schools across the United States in recent days.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10435168
- REUTERS
crims40
California school told: 'I'll make Virgina Tech look mild'
Email this storyPrint this story Updated 1:35PM Friday April 20, 2007
By Alan Naditz
Police are searching for Jeffery Thomas Carney. Photo / Reuters
US school shootings
US networks limit use of gunman video
Shooter's disturbing video yields little for police
YUBA CITY, California - Teachers locked classroom doors, lowered shades and kept nearly 22,000 school children inside all day in two northern California cities after a man threatened to go on a killing spree inspired by Monday's mass murder at Virginia Tech.
Police patrolled public schools in Yuba City and nearby Marysville 65km north of state capital Sacramento after Jeffery Thomas Carney, who officials said had a criminal record, allegedly said he intended to make the mass slaying at Virginia Tech "look mild."
Local officials say Carney called his pastor at the United Methodist Church on Wednesday evening and said he was armed with an AK-47 rifle, improvised explosive devices and poison and would seek to provoke a confrontation with police to "commit suicide-by-cop."
"At about 8:30am we asked the principals to put all schools in lock-down," said Nancy Aaberg, superintendent of the 12,000-pupil Yuba City Unified School District. "We just kind of felt it was a consistent across-the-board safety measure."
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Advertisement"We actually had police at all of our campuses," she said in an interview. "It was a generic threat; there was no specific threat to any of our specific schools or any other schools from this particular suspect."
Yuba City Officials sent high school students home early. Officials in sister city Marysville across the river also locked down schools, affecting 9700 students, an administrator said.
The Sutter County Sheriff's Department described Carney, 28, as a transient and reportedly a methamphetamine abuser possibly under the influence and exhibiting symptoms of methamphetamine psychosis.
It said Carney has a criminal record including burglary and conspiracy, and was out on bail following a charge of domestic violence against his parents.
His father, reached by telephone, declined to comment.
Carney now faces new state charges of making a terrorist threat, Sutter County Sheriff Jim Denny told reporters.
Virginia Tech student Cho Seung-Hui shot and killed 32 people and himself on the Blacksburg, Virginia, campus on Monday in the deadliest shooting rampage in modern US history. The murders have prompted a series of scares at universities and schools across the United States in recent days.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10435168
- REUTERS
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Yeah, a homeless tweaker has got an AK-47 in California......
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what's wrong with all those freaks out there? They let them outta the looney ben? Everyone trying to out do the next one? Seems they could find better things to do. Like maybe go jump off a bridge, or something like that. Hopefully, they will catch this loko before anyone gets hurt. 0 -
FBI is investigating at a local high school right now after someone wrote on a bathroom mirror "this will be Va tech in 5 days" [V] 0 -
quote:Originally posted by bamafan
what's wrong with all those freaks out there? They let them outta the looney ben? Everyone trying to out do the next one? Seems they could find better things to do. Like maybe go jump off a bridge, or something like that. Hopefully, they will catch this loko before anyone gets hurt.
Bzzzt. WRONG.
You can't let someone out of the looney bin when you refuse to put them in the looney bin because "they have rights."0 -
quote:Originally posted by spanielsells
quote:Originally posted by bamafan
what's wrong with all those freaks out there? They let them outta the looney ben? Everyone trying to out do the next one? Seems they could find better things to do. Like maybe go jump off a bridge, or something like that. Hopefully, they will catch this loko before anyone gets hurt.
Bzzzt. WRONG.
You can't let someone out of the looney bin when you refuse to put them in the looney bin because "they have rights."
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