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HUTCHINSON– On Friday, Reno County District Judge Joe McCarville agreed to unseal the affidavits in the case against five teens accused of making threats against Hutchinson High School.
The documents are a request for search warrants and explain how school officials contacted police over the threats made by the teens on Facebook.
The document explains that another teen told police that a month prior to that interview, he was present during a conversation Dominic Collins, Tyler Cabral and Jake Eells discussed driving a semi through Hutch High and lighting people up.
The teens also said anyone not wearing purple would have their heads blown off and if everyone was wearing purple, they would kill everyone.
The teen interviewed by police said there were additional conversations where the suspects talked in a code language he didn’t understand.
Eells’ Facebook page had pictures at the gun range firing different weapons including an assault rifle.
Detective Paul Sack, who prepared that affidavit, said a disturbing hand drawing was also posted on the page of a coffin with “R.I.P. Kody” and a fish holding an assault rifle.
Police later interviewed one of the suspects, Andre Harris who admitted being involved in the online discussion, but claims they were joking.
He told the detectives that Takoda “Kody” Bowman was involved in their group. Harris said that teen was the most likely to follow through with the school shooting because of depression.
Another teen not charged told detectives about a conversation he heard that included a plan to enter Hutch High at the start of the last day of school and hang around until second hour, “that’s when the shooting would begin.”
That teen thought everyone was joking except Tyler Cabral and Jake Eells.
The affidavits also included search warrants for five residences in Hutchinson and for computer software and related items as well as cell phones including data, pictures, video, e-mails, chat logs, social media accounts, Internet history, cookies and document files.
The five teenagers are accused of conspiring to carry out a shooting at Hutchinson High School with the state stating that the five had posted the threats on their Facebook page called “KYOD,” which stands for “kill yourself or die.”
Dominic Collins, Tyler Cabral, Jake Eells, Takoda D. Bowman and Andre R. Harris are charged with solicitation to commit first-degree murder and criminal threat.
The cases are pending future hearings in juvenile court.
