Link between Finland school shooting and thwarted Pa. attacks
Here’s an update to two stories that you have been reading about on this blog.
CNN is reporting that a jailed Pennsylvania teen, who is suspected of plotting a Columbine-style attack on his old school, was in communication with the student who killed eight people in a shooting last week in Finland.
The pair met through the social-networking Web site MySpace. Read more here.
As you may remember, Dillon Cossey, 14, of Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, was charged with unlawful transfer of a firearm, possession of a firearm by a minor, corruption of a minor, endangering the welfare of a child and two counts of reckless endangerment after his arrest last month.
His mother Michele Cossey, 46, is accused of buying him a .22-caliber handgun, a .22-caliber rifle, a 9 mm semiautomatic rifle and black powder used to make grenades.
Cossey was charged with unlawful transfer of a firearm, possession of a firearm by a minor, corruption of a minor, endangering the welfare of a child and two counts of reckless endangerment.
Pekka-Eric Auvinen, 18, fatally shot three women and five boys before turning his gun on himself last week.
The AP reported that the shooting appeared to have been planned out in videos posted on YouTube by Auvinen.
Categories: Around the Nation, Around the World, School Safety (Or Lack Thereof)
