The 16-year-old student accused of making explosives in his Monkton home told police he took a stolen handgun to the George Washington Carver Center for the Arts and Technology last week, but was too intoxicated to carry out his plan to use the weapon at the school, according to charging documents. He was originally accused as a juvenile but prosecutors decided that he should be charged as an adult, police said. Nemphos told police that he wanted to bomb the school, according to the documents, and two homemade explosives were discovered behind the teen's bedroom dresser. Nemphos, a 10th-grade student, took the gun to school in a backpack on Friday but decided to hold off on his plans until Monday because he had been drinking whiskey before class and was too inebriated to carry off his plans, according to police. Police said the investigation began Saturday afternoon when three employees at the Monkton Grille said someone stole items from their unlocked vehicles in the back lot while they worked. On Halloween, Nemphos, of Monkton, Maryland, had planned to kill his parents, drive to the George Washington Carver Center for Arts and Technology in Towson, shoot the school police officer, and then take the officer's gun to "kill as many teachers and students as he could," according to the court documents. Charges include possession of a destructive device, possession of a dangerous weapon on school property, theft and a handgun violation, according to authorities. No attorney is listed for him in online court records, and his parents could not be reached for comment. Due to incorrect information provided by the Baltimore County police, an earlier version of this story misstated where Nemphos is being held.
– A Maryland teenager who allegedly planned a Halloween school shooting got as far as bringing a gun to school in his backpack—but he was too drunk to actually carry out the violence, police say. Sash Nemphos, 16, intended to kill his parents, then go to school and kill the police officer stationed there, court documents say. Afterward, he planned to take the cop's gun and "kill as many teachers and students as he could." But when the boy arrived at the George Washington Carver Center for Arts and Technology in Towson—apparently without having killed his parents—he felt he'd had too much whiskey to follow through with his plans, and he postponed them to Monday, police say. But on Saturday, Nemphos was arrested in a different case, this time for alleged theft. Workers at a restaurant near the boy's home said items had been stolen from their cars; the trail allegedly led to Nemphos. Despite initially denying he'd stolen anything, he "broke down" and acknowledged responsibility, according to police. After his father raised concerns about a handgun stolen from his work, Nemphos told police about his attack plans, they say. They found a suicide note along with a handgun and homemade bombs, Reuters reports. The boy told police he'd been bullied, but he said teachers had done nothing about it, the Baltimore Sun reports. He's now been charged as an adult over possession of a destructive device and weapon possession at school, among other charges.