Student says he was preparing for rapture, loads car with guns, booze, ammo

[sixmile]

I think a school shooting was possibly averted by alert students and school officials.

http://www.news-press.com/article/20110523/CRIME/110523063/Riverdale-High-student-says-he-preparing-Rapture-loaded-car-guns-ammo

'Michael Boyko feared there was truth to the prediction the world would end Saturday.

So, the 17-year-old from North Fort Myers loaded his Dodge Neon with a trove of weapons, ammunition, bolt cutters and a ski mask, according to a Lee County sheriff’s report. He wanted to protect himself in the event the Rapture happened, he would tell Riverdale High School administrators.

The high school senior’s plan to protect himself went awry when someone saw him with a gun at a school event Saturday and told a teacher. On Monday, school administrators and the school resource officer searched the Neon and found Boyko’s arsenal.

But after hearing Boyko, a senior, was not even required to be at school Monday as a member of Riverdale’s graduating class, Lee deputies continue to investigate what the teen’s true motives might have been, according to Boyko’s arrest report.

“(The situation) left both school administrators and law enforcement with the concern that Michael intended to carry out a school shooting while students were present,” Detective Carolynn Gamez wrote in the report.'

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'When deputies went through the Neon, Boyko’s arrest report said they found three shotguns, one loaded semi-automatic handgun, one loaded revolver, two bayonet-style knives in sheaths, a pair of black gloves, a vodka bottle and a case of Bud Light, along with the bolt cutters, ski mask and ammunition.'

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[hobbit709]

1. Rapture, my ass.

[elocs]

3. What, and leave the rest behind? That would be inconvenient. n/t

[hobbit709]

5. I guess I left out this ,

[stevenleser]

2. Who was he planning on shooting? Jesus? The four horsemen of the apocalypse?

Something tells me that Jesus and the four horsemen would be immune to buckshot.

And what was with the booze? Was he planning to bribe his way past St. Peter by offering him Jack Daniels?

This does not make sense at all

[mikeytherat]

4. Ski mask, bolt cutters, guns...

"And he shall come like a thief in the night, and steal your TV and DVR, which he will then pawn to buy crank."

mikey_the_rat

[GKirk]

6. Either a complete bullshit story

from the kid, or if he really did this because of the impending rapture that he imagined, did not understand said rapture.

[mysuzuki2]

7. this has got to be a BS excuse. Obviously he wouldn't

need guns in heaven and the booze will be free, won't? And Bud Light? Come on !