Records: N.H. teen made shooting threat

MANCHESTER, N.H., Feb. 22 (UPI) -- A New Hampshire judge has refused to accept a high school student's guilty pleas and ordered him to stand trial for allegedly planning a shooting at his school.

The suspect, 17-year-old Sterling Lindbloom, allegedly threatened to bring a gun into his school to shoot students and school officials, the New Hampshire Union Leader reported. Citing legal documents, the newspaper said the West High School student told a former girlfriend of his alleged plan, and she alerted school officials.

"I'm going to bring a gun to do a Columbine," Lindbloom was quoted as saying -- referring to the 1999 massacre at Colorado's Columbine High School.

Lindbloom was arrested by school resource officers Thursday. Police said they found ammunition, as well as four knives, two hatchets and a copper pipe in a lean-to in a wooded near his home.

Lindbloom pleaded guilty in court Friday to two of five misdemeanor charges and innocent to three others, the newspaper said, but Judge William Lyons refused to accept the guilty pleas and set a May 5 trial date.

Prosecutors asked that Lindbloom, who was said to be suicidal, be held without bail. Lyons ordered him held without bail for the weekend.

A preventative detention hearing was scheduled for Monday.