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Missouri Man Charged With Allegedly Plotting Copycat Batman Shooting at New ‘Twilight’ Film

Nov. 16, 2012 6:40pm Madeleine Morgenstern

Blaec Lammers Charged With Allegedly Plotting Copycat Batman Shooting at New Twilight Film

Blaec Lammers (Image source: KSDK-TV)

A Missouri man has been charged after admitting to planning a mass shooting during a screening of the new “Twilight” film this weekend, authorities said.

Blaec Lammers, 20, of Bolivar, Mo. allegedly told local police that he purchased two assault rifles, 400 rounds of ammunition and a ticket to a Sunday showing of “Breaking Dawn – Part 2″ with the intention of shooting people at the theater, the Springfield News-Leader reported. He told police he “had a lot in common with” recent shooters he’d seen on the news.

“Blaec Lammers stated that he had a lot in common with the people that have been involved in those shootings. Blaec Lammers state that he was quiet, kind of a loner, had recently purchased firearms and didn’t tell anybody about it, and had homicidal thoughts,” a statement from the Bolivar police department said, according to the Riverfront Times.

He was charged with attempted first-degree assault, making a terroristic threat and armed criminal action, the News-Leader reported.

According to the statement, Lammers’ mother contacted authorities on Thursday after he purchased the weapons out of concern he might be planning something similar to the mass shooting in Aurora, Colo. during a screening of “The Dark Knight Rises” in July.

A police officer approached Lammers at a local Sonic and convinced him to come to the station for an interview, according to the News-Leader. Lammers initially said he bought the weapons for hunting but later said he had planned to shoot people.

He told police, according to the statement, that after he “got to thinking about it” he decided to shoot people at a local Walmart so if he ran out of ammunition he could stock up again.

Lammers said he had planned to keep shooting until police arrived and would then turn himself in, the statement said.

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NashVegasRocker
Posted on November 18, 2012 at 11:10am
Thaks for the link YAHSHUARULES for the fabulous link. It tells it all….very well….maybe too well for some….

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Ceefour
Posted on November 17, 2012 at 4:30pm
This poor lad would have been bitterly disappointed when he got to the theater and was stopped by all thos “NO GUNS ALLOWED INSIDE” signs. Just no telling what he would have done then.

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- IWISHIWASINTEXAS
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 7:21pm
  Oh yeah, he would probably have just hung his head, cursed under his breath, walked back to his car and drove to the police station to turn himself in! I always laugh when I see signs like that lol like that would ever stop a criminal intent to do harm, just stupid.
  
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raydenh
Posted on November 17, 2012 at 12:16pm
I’m a pastor in Bolivar, and this is all a sad situation. His mother made a heart-wrenching and life saving decision. I thank God that she made the call, and it’s easy for those not involved to quarterback the decision after the fact. At the end of the day she made the call to save lives. I’m grateful that this community was rescued from this tragedy, and we have his mom and our awesome police force to thank for that.

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- Elena2010
  Posted on November 17, 2012 at 12:31pm
  Amen.
  
  Perhaps her son can get the help he so desperately needs.
  
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richardyoungjr
Posted on November 17, 2012 at 12:02pm
I go to Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar, it all seams too surreal. I actually know of people who were planning on going to that Twilight showing but went to Springfield, MO instead. Thankful that this incident was thwarted.

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- YAHSHUARULES
  Posted on November 18, 2012 at 3:25am
  Baptist University huh and people want to go to a vampire movie. Does the concept of satan being a counterfeiter of everything of the Almighty give you pause. Let me suggest. John 6 Yahushuah – Jesus Christ says that unless you eat his flesh and drink his Blood you have no life in you. So vampirism is a perversion of this sacred communion, can’t you see that? Vampires suck blood to live and they are the damned that never die. And don’t give me anything about how its just fantasy, where do you think the inspiration for such a thing came from? Not from Father God but from he who walks around like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour. Here is a real easy thing to do ask yourself on everything you are going to read, to say or to do, everything you look at or listen to – does this bring glory to the Lord? If the answer is no then those that are His should not do it. Watching a counterfeit to the sacrament of communion does not bring Glory to Him.
  
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Chet Hempstead
Posted on November 17, 2012 at 12:25am
People going to a Batman movie are innocent victims, but in the case of anyone who still wants to see another Twilight movie, it’s arguably a mercy killing.

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booger71
Posted on November 16, 2012 at 9:10pm
He is mentally ill, as you seem to be.

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The Giver
Posted on November 16, 2012 at 8:23pm
Probably voted for Obama. After all, Obama now has a hit list of Americans.

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- The Giver
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 9:55pm
  …after a little research, the hit list may include Americans seen near known terrorists. Hope it is a lot more detailed than that.
  
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The Giver
Posted on November 16, 2012 at 8:21pm
Thank God his mom put the clues together. She is a hero. She saved lives including that of her son.

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- Bonnieblue2A
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 8:53pm
  A hero? No. Doing the right thing isn’t heroic. She should have gotten her son help long before this incident as surely the signs were there.
  
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- booger71
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 9:09pm
  Doctors are reluctant to institutionalize mentally ill people who go off their meds.
  
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- Happy Killmore
  Posted on November 17, 2012 at 9:31am
  Doctors are PROHIBITED from institutionalizing patients who go off their meds. That takes a court order and it’s VERY difficult to do.
  
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republic2011
Posted on November 16, 2012 at 7:36pm
Execute him.. That will send a message to the other copycat idiots.

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- Elena2010
  Posted on November 17, 2012 at 12:48pm
  We do NOT execute mentally ill people in the US. Neither do we execute them for thought crimes.
  
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kenboo1
Posted on November 16, 2012 at 7:32pm
They have been given everything and now they have to earn it cause their sugar daddy died… No sense of responsibility, community, commitment… Its a scarey world out their…

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rickc34
Posted on November 16, 2012 at 6:49pm
What is wrong with these young people today? What is in the kool aid. Take God out of the picture and watch violent movies and teachers that tell you that your ancestors are now exhibits at the zoo. No love for life.

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- mercenary4freedom
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 7:29pm
  Hollywierd movies, liberal video games all depicting it’s ok & glamorous to shoot people.
  
  BTW the new big game that came out the other day takes place in 2025 and has a carrier named the USS barack obama. When my kid told me that I about spit my coffee.
  
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- Bonnieblue2A
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 7:30pm
  His statements were all about him. No consideration for his potential victims; rather, another twisted attention seeker wanting his 15 min. of fame at the expense and lives of others. Bolivar is a pretty small place and one has to wonder if he was going to carry this out in Springfield, MO.
  
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- 13th Generation American
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 8:18pm
  MERCENARY4FREEDOM your name alone make you an idiot but I have to ask you, what is a liberal video game exactly? Moron
  
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- Elena2010
  Posted on November 17, 2012 at 12:55pm
  Rick — then you read The Harbinger.
  
  This is what happens when a nation divorces itself fm God and opts for a “do your own thing” worldview. We have exchanged goodness for wickedness and claimed it was a benefit to society.
  
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- YAHSHUARULES
  Posted on November 18, 2012 at 3:28am
  Your absolutely right about the corrupting of the soul of America’s youth and its by design and deliberate. If you have not seen this well worth your time
  http://vimeo.com/52009124?action=share&ref=nf
  
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