The Oklahoma teen brothers accused of fatally stabbing their parents and three of their siblings hoped their bloody rampage would make them more infamous than the Columbine High School shooters, local media reported.
Robert and Michael Bever, 18 and 16 years old, were booked into jail as adults in the five stabbing deaths.The brothers planned to first kill their relatives — whom they considered to be “easy targets” — and then go after “harder” targets outside the family home, sources said. But their mass murder plan was cut short when police tracked them down after the kin killings.
Five of the Bevers — parents April and David, 12-year-old Daniel, 7-year-old Christopher and 5-year-old Victoria — were found dead last week inside the family’s well-kept, upper-middle-class home in Broken Arrow, a Tulsa suburb. Two sisters survived the attack: A 13-year-old Crystal was injured while 2-year-old Autumn was unharmed.
At least one of the two brothers — who were tracked down by a K-9 officer in woods behind the house — confessed to the killings.
The home attack was just the first step in the boys’ mass murder plot, sources said.
The two allegedly wanted to kill so many people, they would become more famous than the Columbine High School shooters, who fatally shot 13 people inside the Colorado school in 1999, sources said.
The plotted their two-step killing spree in advance, sources said: First they’d stab their relatives to death, then start killing other people.
A shipment of 3,000 rounds of ammunition was delivered to the family home in the days after the domestic massacre — weapons the boys planned to use in stage two of their plot, sources said.
But police ended the planned rampage when they tracked down the teens shortly after the family stabbings. Their 12-year-old brother called police before he died from his stab wounds.
Officers found the five slain victims and two surviving sisters inside the home. A tracking dog led officers to 16- and 18-year-old brothers in woods behind the house.
Michael and Robert will both be charged as adults, police said. They are currently being held on five counts of first-degree murder and one count of assault and battery.
Robert Bever is due in court on August 3
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