In Washington, two fifth-grade boys’ plan to kill one of their classmates was thwarted when another student informed a school employee, according to CNN.
The students, who were armed with a stolen semi-automatic gun, ammunition clip and knife told police that they were going to kill a girl that had a short “dating relationship” with one of the boys. They considered her rude and annoying, and said that she was mean to them.
“Yes, I just want her dead,” the younger boy told authorities.
The older boy had been friends with the girl for several months, but he wanted to kill her because she picked on and annoyed him, court papers said.
“Yes, and I wanted to kill her alone at first,” the older boy told a police officer.
The two boys told another student two weeks earlier about the plot to kill the girl and were going to pay him $80 to keep it secret, the court filings said.
They will not be tried as adults when they appear in court next Wednesday for a capacity hearing, said Tim Rasmussen, the Stevens County prosecuting attorney.
According to CNN, the boys were also going to go on a killing spree at the school.
The two boys, ages 10 and 11, told authorities that they were also going to kill, or “get,” six more students at Fort Colville Elementary School in Colville, Washington, and even identified them from a class list provided by school employees, according to court documents.
The boys’ plan called for the older to stab the girl off-campus with a 3.25-inch knife last week, and the younger boy would scare off any responders with a .45-caliber Remington.
The students stole the gun from a case belonging to the younger boy’s brother, but the older boy told authorities that he stole the firearm from their dead grandfather’s home.
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An officer noticed in his interview with the older boy that he “did not display any emotion or remorse during the interview,” court papers said.
When authorities were transporting the arrested boys to the Stevens County Courthouse, the juvenile probation department staff told a detective that they overheard the older boy telling the younger: “If I find out who told them about our weapons, I’m going to kill them. I don’t care; when I get out of jail I’m going to come back and kill them,” according to court papers.
Wow! While we’re trying to protect our children from being killed by gun violence, we also have to make sure that they aren’t influenced!
SOURCE: CNN
