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U.S. NEWS Saturday 21 OctOber 2017

Deputies: Man had arsenal, note promising ‘bloody revenge’

something else and put a
bunch of nails and screws
and other things, he could
have caused some serious
damage. Because it’s the
shrapnel that hurts and kills
everybody.”
The sheriff said he noti-
fied law enforcement and
school officials in Hillsbor-
ough County, but so far
investigators believe Drake
was working alone.
Photo shows Randall Drake. His parents told authorities
(Pinellas SO via AP) they didn’t know what he
DUNEDIN, Fla. (AP) — Sher- kept in his locked closet,
iff’s deputies conducting a the sheriff said. Drake had
child porn raid on a Florida no criminal history. He was
home Wednesday found fired in 2015 from Florida
an arsenal of guns and Firearm Academy in New
explosives and a home- Port Richey after he came
made silencer, along with to work with guns strapped
a note promising “bloody to his thighs, officials said.
revenge.” He also was an Explorer In this photo released by the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office, a weapons cache is shown in the
Investigators found the with the Tampa Police De- home of Randall Drake. Sheriff’s deputies conducting a child porn raid on the home found an
weapons — including an partment when he was arsenal of guns and explosives and a homemade silencer, along with a note promising “bloody
AK-47 assault rifle, a 50-cal- younger. revenge.”
iber pistol, a baseball bat Drake’s parents told depu- (Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office via AP)
with nails jutting out and ties he was homeschooled. dar, the people who have and then the world will burn
2,300 rounds of ammuni- Gualtieri compared Drake fallen under the radar or off burn.”
tion — in a locked closet in to Las Vegas gunman Ste- of it. You don’t know about The child porn investiga-
the Dunedin, Florida, home phen Paddock in the way them until they engage in tion that led to the search
where 24-year-old Randall he seemed to be acting devastating acts and kill a warrant this week began in
Drake lived with his par- alone. whole bunch of people.” January, the sheriff said.
ents, Pinellas County Sheriff “These are the people who The note deputies found Drake faces felony charges
Bob Gualtieri said. are most concerning to us,” in Drake’s bedroom read: of possessing destructive
During a news conference he said. “What we call the “My fury at those who im- devices. He left jail on a
on Thursday night, Gaultieri lone wolves, the sleepers prisoned me shall be vast $20,000 bond, but an at-
said that even more “trou- who are out there, the peo- and without mercy. I shall torney isn’t listed on jail
bling” is that investigators ple who are not on our ra- have my bloody revenge, records.q
found aerial images of
two schools and a water
treatment plant in nearby Suspect in Ohio slayings of 4 pleads not guilty
Tampa. There was also
the note written by Drake
that promised he’ll have IRONTON, Ohio (AP) — attempted murder. er. order.
his “bloody revenge” and A man suspected in the Twenty-three-year-old Ar- Lawson also pleaded not A message seeking com-
“the world will burn burn.” deadly Ohio shootings of ron Lawson pleaded not guilty to charges of feloni- ment was left Friday for
“I don’t know what his a 7-year-old boy and three guilty Friday in a Lawrence ous assault, rape, kidnap- Lawson’s attorney.
plan was,” Gaultieri said. other relatives and a relat- County court. He was ar- ping, corpse abuse, ag- Lawson is suspected of kill-
“He had all kinds of books ed non-fatal stabbing has rested Oct. 13 after a man- gravated burglary, vehicle ing an adult relative, her
and all kinds of gun pow- pleaded not guilty to nu- hunt near Ironton, just south theft, tampering with evi- mother and stepfather,
der and if he had taken merous charges including of where authorities found dence and failing to com- and her son and of wound-
those devices put them in aggravated murder and the bodies in a house trail- ply with a police officer’s ing her husband.q