11:40 a.m.: Case continued in school plot

May 09, 2008 01:00 pm

— SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Prosecutors will wait until at least next month to decide whether to seek adult charges against a South Bend teenager accused of planning a Columbine-style attack on his high school.
A magistrate on Friday agreed to a request by the boy’s attorney and the deputy prosecutor to continue the case until next month so psychological tests can be completed on whether he is a risk to himself or society.
The boy is charged with a juvenile count of conspiracy to commit murder.
Authorities at northern Indiana’s Penn High School say the teen had exchanged e-mails with an Ohio man in which they discussed mass murders at the same time at the teen’s school and at another location.