Tape shows teen firing assault rifle

CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. – Police have seized a videotape showing a 17-year-old who is suspected of planning an attack on his suburban Detroit high school firing a stolen semiautomatic AK47 assault rifle.

The tape also shows the youth’s father firing the weapon.

Police say Andrew Osantowski, of Macomb County’s Clinton Township, talked on the Internet of plans for an attack at Chippewa Valley High School, where he started school Aug. 31.

Authorities arrested the youth on a tip from a Pullman girl with whom he had been exchanging Internet messages.

“I didn’t want to wake up the next morning, see something on the news and be like, ‘OK, I knew about that the whole time,’ ” Celia McGinty, 16, told the Detroit News.

She gave the messages to her father, Cpl. George McGinty, a cyber-crime officer with Washington State University police.

Osantowski is being held in the Macomb County Jail on more than $1 million bond, charged with 10 felonies, including threatening terrorism.

Also charged was Osantowski’s father, Marvin Osantowski, 52, and another man, Dominic Queentry, 33.

Marvin Osantowski was charged with three counts of concealing stolen weapons, one count of conspiring to conceal weapons and one count of receiving or concealing stolen property.

Queentry was charged with possessing explosives and manufacturing marijuana as well as other charges. His bond originally was set at $100,000, but he was released Tuesday after posting a $5,000 bond, said WDIV-TV in Detroit.

Queentry said he had nothing to do with Osantowski: “I don’t know this kid. I don’t know where he lives. I don’t know what he was planning on doing.”

The tape was among hundreds confiscated from the youth’s bedroom last week, after police got a tip he was planning to blow up the school and gun down students, teachers and the school’s liaison officer.

Father and son are shown firing the weapon in the woods on family land in Huron County, said Macomb County Assistant Prosecutor John Courie.

“This makes our case against the father much stronger,” Courie told the Detroit Free Press for a story Tuesday.

Police also seized bomb-making materials, two shotguns, ammunition, knives, Nazi paraphernalia, propane canisters and chemicals.