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The mom of a Colorado teenager who instructed police she had been planning to hold out a neighborhood faculty capturing mentioned it was “a household choice” to inform cops after studying of the chilling plans.
Melissa Whitworth-Mathes instructed The Post her household made the collective choice to have her daughter, Lilly, “held accountable for her actions.”
Lilly, a transgender girl who was born William, finally admitted to police she had begun researching weaponry and the format of native colleges, and had penned 4 pages of a manifesto — which praised serial killer Ed Kemper and Sandy Hook elementary faculty shooter Adam Lanza — in line with a police affidavit obtained by The Post.
“We are additionally victims within the instances in opposition to Lily, and are struggling to come back to phrases with what has occurred and what we needed to do to guard the general public,” Whitworth-Mathes wrote in a message Friday.
The four-page manifesto allegedly included a “record of firearms and how one can 3D print them,” “[d]etailed lists of quite a few people named to be killed” and data “detailing the creation of improvised explosive units,” the doc states.
The 18th Judicial District Attorney’s Office revealed Wednesday it had charged Whitworth with two counts of felony try and commit homicide and one rely every of felony mischief, menacing and interference with workers, school or college students of academic establishments.
A public defender appointed to characterize Whitworth declined to remark when contacted by The Post Friday.
The Elbert County Sheriff’s Office obtained a name shortly after 7:15 p.m. March 31 from a lady who instructed a dispatcher her sister – Lilly Whitworth – had violently approached her, had made feedback referencing a faculty capturing and had “threatened to shoot up a faculty,” the affidavit states.
Officers arrived and found holes that appeared to have been punched into the partitions outdoors Whitworth’s bed room. The bed room door “was off its hinges and mendacity beside the opening.”
The affidavit describes how Whitworth – who later allegedly admitted to being drunk – was “very drowsy and couldn’t keep awake.”
“I requested Lilly if she mentioned she was going to shoot up a faculty and she or he visibly shook her head up and down indicating sure,” the responding officer wrote.
When requested why, Whitworth allegedly responded, “Why does anybody do it.”
Whitworth instructed police she final attended in-person education at Timberview Middle School in Colorado Springs, however had since been homeschooled.
“I requested Lilly what faculty she mentioned she was going to shoot up and she or he positioned her hand over her face,” the affidavit continues. “I said Timberview was your final faculty and Lilly shook her head up and down indicating sure.
“I requested her how come that college and she or he said, ‘No particular motive,’” the doc alleges.
Police mentioned Whitworth made suicidal statements, and mentioned she didn’t know of any weapons in her house. The affidavit describes how police didn’t discover any firearms in the home, however did see bottles of weapon cleansing liquid.
The officer mentioned he requested Whitworth “how a lot she had been planning the varsity capturing,” to which she allegedly replied that she was “a couple of third of the way in which from doing it.”
She allegedly mentioned she had being making her plans for roughly one to 2 months, and had drawn ground plans in notebooks and on a dry erase board.
Whitworth had additionally drawn “a clock to make use of as a detonation gadget” with additional directions, police mentioned.
“Lilly verified that Timberview Middle faculty was one of many ‘foremost targets’ at the moment and different targets have been church buildings,” the affidavit states.
“Lilly was requested what sort of planning she had accomplished, and she or he said format of the varsity, lively firearm planning and beginning a manifesto.”
The manifesto, she described, “was 4 pages lengthy and had schizophrenic rants on them,” the affidavit states. Asked if she was schizophrenic, she allegedly responded, “I hope not.”
When officers requested Whitworth what she knew about faculty shootings, she instructed them, “an excessive amount of,” the affidavit goes on.
“I requested what she meant by an excessive amount of and Lilly said there’s a web page in my manifesto and there’s a bunch of mass killers,” the doc alleges.
Investigators looking the house additionally discovered a duplicate of Karl Marx’s “The Communist Manifesto.”
Whitworth was ordered held on $75,000 bond as she awaits a May 5 court docket look.
