Justin Walters was a ninth-grade student in Holland when he and a classmate compiled a “die or dead list.”
THERESA, N.Y. — A U. S. Army soldier charged with killing his wife and a state trooper in northern New York plotted to shoot up his Michigan middle school while a teenager.
MLive.com reports Justin Walters was a 15-year-old ninth-grade student at Macatawa Bay Middle School in Holland when he and classmate compiled a “die or dead list” and planned to shoot people at the school before killing themselves.
Another classmate tipped off police to the 1999 plot. The Grand Rapids Press reported that Walters pleaded guilty in family court to conspiracy to carry a dangerous weapon.
The 32-year-old Walters was charged early Monday with two counts of murder just hours after police say he fatally shot his wife, Nichole Walters, and Trooper Joel Davis at the couple’s home in Theresa.
Justin Walters was stationed at nearby Fort Drum.
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