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The terrorist attack, which was not: the story of a student from Minnesota

Since the summer of 2013, high school student John David LaDewe from the small town of Wasick, Minnesota, has planned one of the worst school bombings in US history.

Over the course of nine months, he tested improvised explosive devices in various places, such as a church, a skate park and a shooting range.

“I took pleasure in thinking about how I would hurt and maim people, showing them that I was superior to them,” he then explained to police.

Improvised explosive devices similar to those carried by Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who committed the Columbine High School massacre in Colorado in 1999 (13 victims), were found in LaDue's caches.

LaDueu did his homework. Information about homemade bombs young fan of chemistry found in the open access to the Internet, and all their preparations for the explosions scrupulously recorded in a notebook.

The Minnesota high school student even purchased a black jacket to look “like Harris.” During interrogation, LaDue told police that in honor of his idol, he wanted to time the attack to coincide with the 15th anniversary of the Columbine attack.

LaDue called the Boston Marathon bombing carried out by the Tsarnaev brothers weak because it killed “only three people.” That is why he prepared a much more explosive explosive mixture.

Another killer, Adam Lanza, who committed the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre that killed 27 people, was called a “coward” by LaDue for attacking first-graders. “My targets were peers I knew,” said the would-be terrorist.

Accidental witness

The explosive was supposed to be in the trash cans, which are located in the corridors of the school in Wasik. LaDueu planned to bring them into action at a distance, then rush into the building with a gun (the Soviet self-loading SKS carbine) and continue the massacre.

He was targeting at least 40 dead, three times the number at Columbine High School. The high school student, according to his stories, did not intend to commit suicide, expecting to be killed by the police in a shootout.

However, his plan was thwarted by 29 on April 2014, when a woman who called the 911 console saw a person who was trying to enter the storage room.

It would seem that everything is obvious, but the legal system faced the question of how to deal with a massacre that never happened.

Almost every month there are headlines in the news about the Columbine murder plot uncovered. The suspects are almost always white teenagers who have researched the history of the Colorado school attack and cite quotes from other killers as motives.

Over the past 16 years, more than 40 people have been detained on suspicion of planning Columbine-style massacres. Some of them are after LaDue's arrest in April 2014.

Psychologists say that young people are seduced by existing experiences, including Harris and Klebold, with whom it is easier for them to associate themselves when “life is going nowhere.”

Treatment instead of conclusion

LaDewe was 17 years old at the time of his arrest, but they wanted to judge him as an adult. He was charged on 16 counts, including possession of explosives and attempted murder. If you put it all together, he faced more than 60 years in prison.

However, the prosecutor's office lost the first round when the judge excluded the key count of attempted murder from the case. The judge found no evidence that LaDue intended to carry out his horrific plan. He called everything else “speculation.”

Psychologists, attracted by the defense, gave Ludwu positive characteristics, assessing the risk of his return to previous plans as low. At the same time, psychologists who were appointed by the court agreed that the young man would need years of intensive therapy before he ceased to be a danger to society.

In June of this year, John David LaDue said he had “decided to act responsibly and stop engaging in illegal activities.” According to the would-be killer, he sets new goals for himself and wants to become a mathematician.

In September, 17 months after his arrest, LaDueu pleaded guilty, but only to the illegal possession of explosives. On the remaining charges, he was dropped due to a deal with the investigation.

The suspect managed to avoid jail time - he was sent for treatment for autism spectrum disorder, which will take up to 10 years. If LaDue's treatment is successful, he will be transferred to a residential rehabilitation center or transitional facility where he will be prepared to re-enter the community under intensive supervision.

In the event that the requirements of the court are fully met, the charge of a particularly grave crime will be replaced with a minor offense and excluded from his personal case.

As if nothing had happened.

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