By Oliver Mackson
 

Times Herald-Record
May 02, 2007

Goshen — A 15-year-old boy admitted in court yesterday that the day after the Virginia Tech
massacre, he made an ominous promise to a security guard at Cornwall High School.

"Wait until tomorrow. It will be Columbine," the boy said. He said he had "more stuff than the
police in this town." He said the victims at Columbine High School and Virginia Tech all
deserved to die.

The gangly teen nodded yesterday in Family Court, acknowledging those were his words that
Assistant County Attorney Janine Sarbak read aloud.

He also admitted that he taped his pet cat, Azreal, to a wall at his home in the Town of Blooming
Grove. Police found a photo of the cat in the boy's house, and he calmly verified yesterday that
he taped the cat to the wall "for about a minute."

Police also seized a shotgun and a .22-caliber rifle, and they found photos of the boy wearing a
black bandanna as a mask and posing with one of the weapons.

He pleaded guilty yesterday to the adult equivalent of making a terrorist threat, a felony, and
torturing animals, a misdemeanor.

Sarbak told Judge Carol Klein yesterday that the boy made a threat last year against the
Washingtonville School District, and she noted that he's already on probation.

Klein said he won't be getting probation this time. He'll be sentenced May 8.

The boy remained in handcuffs yesterday, waiting to be returned to a detention center. He stared
straight ahead and didn't acknowledge his parents as they left the courtroom.