Mothers foils son's Twilight cinema massacre in Missouri
A Missouri mother foiled her son's plot to kill people at the latest film after telling police he was off his medication and had bought assault weapons.
Police found Blaec Lammers, 20, at a Sonic fast food restaurant on Thursday. His mother had told officers she was worried as the guns he had bought were similar to those used in the recent massacre at a Colorado screening of .
Lammers initially told detectives he bought the guns to go hunting. But he opened up when they began discussing recent shootings, saying he "had a lot in common" with the gunmen.
"Lammers stated that he was quiet, kind of a loner, had recently purchased firearms ... and had homicidal thoughts," Detective Dustin Ross said.
He then admitted he had bought the guns "with the intention of shooting up the movie theatre" in his hometown of Bolivar, Missouri, on Saturday night.
"Blaec Lammers stated that he then got to thinking about it and realised that he might run out of ammunition so he decided he would go and shoot people at Wal-Mart," Ross said. He told the officers he planned to "walk into the store and just start shooting people at random".
Lammers told police he had purchased 400 rounds of ammunition and decided if he ran out "he would just break the glass where the ammunition is being stored and get some more and keep on shooting until the police arrived". He was charged Friday with one count of making a terrorist threat, one count of assault and one count of armed criminal action.
He was previously arrested in 2009 after stating he wanted to stab a Wal-Mart employee to death and following an employee around the store until police arrived, the charging papers said.
With a population of about 10,300, Bolivar lies just north of Springfield, about 140 miles southeast of Kansas City.
Lammers admitted purchasing the weapons on Monday and Tuesday and then practised shooting in Aldrich, Missouri.
"Lammers stated that he had never shot a gun before and wanted to make sure he knew how they shot and how they functioned," Ross said.
