Mom foils Twilight massacre plot

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Chicago - A Missouri mother foiled her son's plot to kill people at the latest Twilight film when she told police he was off his medication and had bought assault weapons, court documents showed on Friday.

Police found Blaec Lammers, 20, at a Sonic fast food restaurant on Thursday after his mother told them she was worried because the guns he'd purchased were similar to those used in the recent massacre at a Colorado screening of Batman.

Lammers went quietly to the police station where he initially told detectives he bought the guns to go hunting, a probable cause statement said.

But he opened up when they began discussing recent shootings and said he "had a lot in common" with the shooters.

Homicidal thoughts

"Lammers stated that he was quiet, kind of a loner, had recently purchased firearms... and had homicidal thoughts," Detective Dustin Ross wrote.

He then admitted that he'd bought the guns "with the intention of shooting up the movie theatre" in his hometown of Bolivar, Missouri on Saturday night.

"Blaec Lammers stated that he then got to thinking about it and realised that he might run out of ammunition so he decided he would go and shoot people at Wal-Mart," Ross said.

He told the officers he planned to "walk into the store and just start shooting people at random".

Lammers told police he had purchased 400 rounds of ammunition and decided that if he ran out "he would just break the glass where the ammunition is being stored and get some more and keep on shooting until the police arrived."

Lammers, who said he'd never fired a gun before he practiced on Tuesday, told police he planned to give himself up once they arrived.

He was charged on Friday with one count of making a terrorist threat, one count of assault and one count of armed criminal action.

He was previously arrested in 2009 after stating that he wanted to stab a Wal-Mart employee to death and following an employee around the store until police arrived, the charging papers said.
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They sure dodged a bullet. :eek:
 
Yes!!! Twilight caused this homicidal tendencies, now remove this garbage from our universe!

:D
 
There's something in their water-supply or airconditioning, because that's downright batty right there. If your kid's predisposed toward offing crowds of innocents with scary guns, then it doesn't belong outside an institution.
 
Damnit, that mom should have kept quite until AFTER the event! :mad:

A few less twi-hards on this planet would be a good thing.
 
so he was going to kill people and then hand himself over to the police. coward.....he wasn't even going to kill himself.
 
This kid is being charged with assault? That seems pretty wacky.

He didn't actually hurt anyone. Sure he intended to and is clearly a few cards short of a full deck but I wasn't aware that someone could be charged with assault without actually having assaulted someone.
 
porchrat said:
This kid is being charged with assault? That seems pretty wacky.

He didn't actually hurt anyone. Sure he intended to and is clearly a few cards short of a full deck but I wasn't aware that someone could be charged with assault without actually having assaulted someone.
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Assault in the USA doesn't have to involve physical contact.
If it becomes physical then it becomes assault and battery.

Assault is simply an act that causes another to apprehend immediate and personal violence, or in the more limited sense of a threat of violence caused by an immediate show of force.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault

In this case it is assault because he had both the means and the intention to bring about the physical violence.
 
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