Bazetta teen wrote to Church of Satan

CORTLAND — Police were concerned when the FBI forwarded an e-mail to them Thursday morning written by a Lakeview High School senior, in which he said: “... i need to kill i want to kill in the name of our unholy lord satan ...”

Their concern grew as they started to realize that the author included his real name, and that his remarks were eerily similar to ones apparently written on the Internet on Sunday by a 24-year-old man the day he went on a shooting spree in Colorado aimed at Christians.

The Bazetta boy’s e-mail, written Wednesday afternoon to a leader of the Church of Satan in New York City, says ... “please let me kill in his name i live and [sic] ohio my grandfather was a lietuanent [sic] in police he has an entire arsenal of wepons [sic] i will kill both my grandparents and take all the wepons [sic] all the money and there [sic] car please employe [sic] me as an unholy warrior email i will kill at his comand [sic] with remorse”

The Church of Satan leader read the e-mail about 6 p.m. Wednesday and forwarded it to the FBI.

The FBI forwarded it to Niles and Cortland police the next morning after determining that the boy was from either Niles or Cortland — he had moved to a Cortland mailing address in Bazetta Township 18 months ago after moving from his mother’s house in Niles.

He was arrested about 1 p.m. Thursday and charged with a misdemeanor, inducing panic. He remains in custody of juvenile officials until at least Monday.

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