Connetquot High School Plot
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The Connetquot High School plot was a 15-year old boy's plan to kill students and staff at Connetquot High School in New York, on the anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre in 2007.[1]
The teenager, who has not been identified since his arrest July 2007 along with 17-year-old Michael McDonough, entered the plea 31 July 2007 in Court. He originally was charged with fifth-degree conspiracy, a misdemeanor. He admitted planning to kill students and staff at the school.[2]
Investigators began looking into the pair after finding a journal describing a plot to attack Connetquot High School with guns and explosives.
Police said they found notes referring to the April, 20, 1999, attack at Colorado's Columbine High School, where two student gunmen killed 12 classmates and a teacher before killing themselves. They determined that the two Long Island teens had looked for ways to purchase weapons but never acquired any.
McDonough was charged as an adult with misdemeanor conspiracy, punishable by up to a year in jail, and is free on $50,000 bond. His court-appointed lawyer, Robert Flick, has said his client was "barely" culpable in the alleged plot.
The 15-year-old was sent to a children's psychiatric center while awaiting sentencing and is due back in court 21 Aug 2007. His lawyer said that he was teased for living in Trailer Park.[3]
