PAW PAW, Mich. (WOOD) — The hearing to determine whether a teenager accused of threatening to kill people at his school will be tried as an adult continued Wednesday in a Van Buren County courtroom.
Police accuse the 15-year-old suspect of creating a detailed plan to shoot and kill classmates and others at Paw Paw High School where he was a student.
Officials say the teen went as far as stealing shotguns from his grandfather and sawing them off so they could be concealed. Investigators also say he’d gathered ammunition and materials to make bombs and Molotov cocktails.
Wednesday’s court date is a continuation of a hearing that began in late April. During the first portion of the hearing, prosecutors showed a judge pages from a journal that had what police called a “hit list” inside. It also contained entries that detailed a plan to shoot and kill classmates and staff at Paw Paw High School on March 19.