Police: Crofton man planned mass shooting, called himself 'Joker' [View all]
Source: The Baltimore Sun
A Crofton man declared himself a “joker” and repeatedly threatened to “blow everybody up” at a Capitol Heights company according to Prince George’s County police — an apparent reference to last week’s mass murder during a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colo.
Neil Edwin Prescott, 28, was taken into custody Thursday — while wearing a T-shirt that said “Guns don’t kill people, I do” — and transferred to Anne Arundel Medical Center for an emergency psychiatric evaluation, police said. He has not been charged with any crimes.
Officers discovered more than 25 firearms and several thousand rounds of ammunition at his apartment on the 1600 block of Parkridge Circle during a search Friday.
An application for the search warrant claims Prescott called a colleague, who worked with him at mail services supplier Pitney Bowes on the 9100 block of East Hampton Blvd., Monday and repeatedly said “I am a joker, I’m gonna load my guns.” He also said he wanted to “see the supervisor’s brain splatter all over the sidewalk,” court records show.
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