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Teen: School Attack Planned

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The Associated Press

Published: October 27, 2007

NORRISTOWN, Pa. - A 14-year-old boy said Friday that he planned a Columbine-style attack on a suburban Philadelphia high school, which could keep him in juvenile custody for up to 6 1/2 years.

Dillon Cossey's statement came about two weeks after authorities searched his Plymouth Township home and found a 9 mm rifle, about 30 air guns modeled to look like high-powered weapons, swords, knives, a bomb-making book, videos of the 1999 Columbine attack in Colorado and violence-filled notebooks.
Cossey tried to recruit another boy in the plan, which included chaining shut the doors at Plymouth Whitemarsh High School and backing a car up to the door, Montgomery County District Attorney Bruce L. Castor Jr. said Friday.

Cossey, who was home-schooled, told details of three felonies - criminal solicitation, risking a catastrophe and possession of an instrument of crime - in Montgomery County juvenile court.

Michele Cossey, 46, is charged with buying her son a .22-caliber handgun, a .22-caliber rifle and a 9 mm semiautomatic rifle with a laser scope. The boy will be placed in juvenile custody. The longest he can remain there is until his 21st birthday.

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