Oregon school attack plan, Sniffer dogs will search an Oregon high school for explosives before students return from the Memorial Day weekend, because one of their classmates was planning to attack them with bombs, police said.
The 1999 shooting spree
at Colorado's Columbine High School served as Grant Acord's benchmark
and inspiration, Benton County District Attorney John Haroldson said.
But the prosecutor said the teen wanted to top Columbine in a planned
attack at West Albany High School.
With the help of
explosive devices, checklists and diagrams, Acord's "goal was to model
the Columbine shootings with some adjustments that would make it a
greater success," Haroldson said.
The prosecutor said
police found six types of explosives in the 17-year-old's possession
after they arrested him Thursday night at his mother's house in Albany,
Oregon.
They recovered napalm,
pipe and drain cleaner bombs, as well as Molotov cocktails Friday from
"a secret compartment that had been created in the floorboards" of the
teen's bedroom, Haroldson said.
Albany police became
suspicious after they "received information that associated ... Acord
with manufacturing a destructive device with the intent of detonating it
at a school."
West Albany High School's
principal, Susie Orsborn, sent a note to students' parents, asking them
to urge their children to come forward and speak with police if they
knew anything about the plan.
Acord, a juvenile, will
be charged "as an adult with attempted aggravated murder," Haroldson
said. He will also face bomb-making charges and "unlawful possession of a
deadly weapon with intent to use against another person."
He is scheduled to appear in court for the first time Tuesday.
CNN is attempting to
reach Acord's attorney for comment. A woman who answered the door at the
house believed to belong to Acord's mother told CNN affiliate KATU that she has no comment.
Albany police searched the school twice -- the first time on the night they arrested Acord.
But state police want to conduct a more thorough search with dogs before students return to class.
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