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A Pittsburgh area man who police say was plotting to don a gorilla suit and open fire at St. Patrick's Day festivities, is being held in custody this week.
According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Sean Notman, 27, planned to kill at least 15 women and shoot police if they got in his way.
Notman, whose bond was revoked by Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge, Jeffrey A. Manning, faces attempted homicide and catastrophe charges in connection with the plot, which police uncovered when they executed a search warrant on his apartment following his arrest on an aggravated assault charge for firing an AK-47 at his roommate.
In a criminal complaint, according to the daily, police said Notman's roommate, Gene Marnell, told them he awoke at around 1 a.m. and heard Notman in the kitchen say, "I could blow them all away and they would never know." He then heard Notman fire a shot into his bedroom and found him standing in the kitchen with an AK-47. Notman told him that "It's that time. Time for my last stand."
He fired another shot into the dishwasher before Marnell was able to disarm him. He then said he planned to kill the police if they were called and left the apartment, but he was later arrested.
Police turned Notman's laptop over to the FBI, who found a document that contained a manifesto that laid out, in great detail, a plan to commit mass murder on March 17.
Notman wrote that he had chosen St. Patrick's Day because of the large volume of people. He went on to say that people would be drunk, making them easier targets, because they wouldn't be "fleet of foot and sound of mind." He said he planned to shoot responding police and to kill himself if police did not fatally shoot him.
