The two Georgia teenagers who plotted a ‘Columbine-style’ massacre at a high school wanted to set a record for mass murder and prepared a ‘kill list’ that included all of the school’s black and disabled students, prosecutors said in court on Friday.
Alfred Dupree, 19, and Victoria McCurley, 18, pleaded guilty on Friday in Cherokee County Superior Court in Canton, Georgia.
The pair are due to be sentenced on Monday for a plot to launch a violent attack at Etowah High School in 2017, the Cherokee Tribune & Ledger News reported.
According to Cherokee County Assistant District Attorney Rachelle Carnesale, the two students planned to deploy smoke bombs so as to ‘corral’ students and faculty into a section of the school.
Alfred Dupree (left), 19, and Victoria McCurley (right), 18, pleaded guilty on Friday in Cherokee County Superior Court in Canton, Georgia
Dupree and McCurley were arrested in October 2017 for plotting to attack their high school with napalm and guns
Authorities believe that if they waited to act, the pair would have carried out their plans to massacre students and teachers at Etowah High School in Cherokee County, Georgia (above)
They then planned to use ‘napalm and firearms’ in order to ‘kill as many people as they could,’ Carnesale said.
Dupree and McCurley were arrested in October 2017 by police in Woodstock, Georgia.
Since their arrest, they have been detained at a local jail, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
They were charged as adults with six counts of conspiracy to commit murder, one count of conspiracy to commit arson, and one count of unlawful possession of a destructive device.
Eric Harris (left) and Dylan Klebold (right) on tape during their shooting spree at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado in April 1999. Dupree and McCurley told authorities that they were inspired by the Columbine massacre which killed 15 people, including the gunmen
Under the pseudonym 'Box of Anger' McCurley made a number of disturbing posts on Instagram which referenced a high school massacre 'starring' the Columbine killers
She also posted several pictures of what appears to be the Columbine High School killers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. In this