A California man apologized Friday for his connection to a 15-year-old lady who fatally shot a trainer and fellow scholar at a spiritual college in Wisconsin, telling a decide that he was ready to just accept the implications of his actions with out explaining his exact position.
Alexander Paffendorf expressed remorse for his involvement when a decide supplied an opportunity for closing phrases earlier than holding an order to confiscate his weapons and ammunition in place till April 4.
He didn’t elaborate in his temporary assertion however authorities have stated he informed FBI brokers that he had been messaging Natalie Rupnow, the Wisconsin shooter, about attacking a authorities constructing with a gun and explosives.
The scholar at Plentiful Life Christian College in Madison killed Rubi Patricia Vergara, a 14-year-old freshman, and 42-year-old trainer Erin Michelle West and severely injured two different college students earlier than capturing herself.
Police haven’t disclosed a motive.
A day after the Dec. 16 assault, a California decide issued a restraining order towards Paffendorf, 20 on the time, underneath the state’s gun purple flag regulation. It required him to show his weapons and ammunition into police.
He has not been charged with any crime.
Paffendorf, showing by video in a collared shirt and tie, stated Friday that he was prepared for a listening to on whether or not the restraining order ought to keep in impact however San Diego Superior Court docket Decide Devon Lomayesva delayed consideration after an legal professional for the town of Carlsbad, north of San Diego, stated Pattendorf was underneath prison investigation.
The decide determined it was in his Pattendorf’s curiosity to delay the listening to as a result of he’s underneath investigation and didn’t have an legal professional.
A detective informed the decide that the FBI anticipated the investigation to conclude inside two to a few months.
The restraining order doesn’t say what authorities constructing Pattendorf focused or when he deliberate to launch his assault.
It additionally doesn’t element his interactions with the scholar besides to state that he was plotting a mass capturing together with her.
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