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FOILED MAY 13, 1999 Port Huron, Mich. Their plan, police said, was to outdo Columbine perpetrators Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold by arming themselves, forcing the principal of Holland Woods Middle School to call an assembly and then killing teachers, classmates and themselves. Jedaiah (David) Zinzo and Justin Schnepp, both 14, made a list of 154 targets, stole a building plan from the school custodian's office and plotted to use one gun to steal more. Classmates caught wind of the plot and reported it to the assistant principal. Zinzo and Schnepp were sentenced to four years' probation...
...little boys can find guns, schools must be vigilant. But at what price? Today it seems as though an arms race has begun in American high schools: as a tiny number of disaffected kids stockpiles guns and home-made bombs to mimic Columbine's Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold (or at least threaten to), communities are investing millions of dollars to bring armed cops--er, "resource officers"--to campus, along with metal detectors and security cameras...
Meanwhile, the culture of high schools is changing in a more subtle way. A kind of psychological arms race has broken out. Some teenagers identify with the killers and yearn for the attention they receive. These kids make lists of their enemies, set up websites memorializing Harris and Klebold, even warn they will "pull a Columbine." But a much larger group of teens is ever more watchful, ready to report any threat, no matter how ludicrous it sounds. It's unclear what kind of people graduate from high schools where some kids hurt so much they want to kill, while...
DeGuzman apparently idolized Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, calling the Columbine gunmen "the only thing that's real." But unlike them, DeGuzman was no outcast. "He worked so well with everybody," says his yearbook adviser Paul Ender. The weapons, friends say, are simply part of DeGuzman's fantasy. Attorney Craig T. Wormley says his client "has merely an innocent fascination with some of the items that were seized." But the charges of weapons possession and intent to injure may send him to prison for 106 years. He has pleaded not guilty...
SETTLEMENT OFFERED. By the families of dead Columbine teen gunmen DYLAN KLEBOLD and ERIC HARRIS, and by the family of imprisoned MARK MANES (who sold the teens one of the guns used in the April 1999 rampage that killed 13 and wounded at least 23); of $1.6 million, cobbled together mostly from homeowners' insurance policies; in Denver, Colo. Relatives of the victims had requested at least $3 million in insurance funds, to be divided among more than 30 families...