A California man apologized Friday for his connection to a 15-year-old woman who fatally shot a trainer and fellow pupil at a spiritual college in Wisconsin, telling a choose that he was ready to just accept the results of his actions with out explaining his exact function.
Alexander Paffendorf expressed remorse for his involvement when a choose supplied an opportunity for last phrases earlier than conserving an order to confiscate his weapons and ammunition in place till April 4.
He didn’t elaborate in his transient assertion however authorities have mentioned 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 choose issued a restraining order towards Paffendorf, 20 on the time, underneath the state’s gun purple flag legislation. 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, mentioned 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, mentioned Pattendorf was underneath legal investigation.
The choose 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 choose 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 coed besides to state that he was plotting a mass capturing along with her.
