Rivergreen has it all now!

This is crazy. I live down the road from this I'm the same neighborhood. Cherokee county is becoming Atlanta!

Is he being charged as an adult??

lack of parental observation and control

Just curious where I could read about him saying about blowing up whole school....Is that on you tube??

Everyone in RiverGreen has seen his public YouTube page but are refraining from posting the link because he is a minor and his name has not been released. We are all trying very hard to be respectful in a very difficult situation. Ask a neighbor and you will see.

When he states that he will 'burn all those little kids to hell', he is talking about OUR children. When he details how he will chain the doors so no one can escape his bomb made with nails, I'd say we are beyond boyish pranks.

I can appreciate you wanting to support your neighbors and friends during this very difficult time, but this is no longer a private family matter. It became our business when he destroyed property WE pay for and we he threatened OUR children. His fragile mental state is not more valuable than the safety of my children.

I pray he gets the help he needs and that this family finds their way. But not at the expense of my family or my friends and neighbors who don't enable this kind of behavior.

And who is interfering? You are the only one quoted in the press.

Here here Mom! Nicely said!

First of all, a drain cleaning bomb. Really!! If u new me i make bombs and i am only 14 i have made them for a few years now. My parents buy the stuff i need. I could of made one bomb, strong enough to blow the whole school up. And burn all those little kids to hell.

Those are the words of that nice boy that is no different then any other 14 year old teenager with nothing else to do in the summer. Cut and pasted off you tube since you can't seem to find it and you are "skeptical". That is him responding to a bombing at a school in Michigan.

Well said Anastasia. I was going to say the same thing - I bet Harris and Kelbold were nice, polite kids too. That doesn't mean that they don't have issues. Nobody knows what "really" goes on behind closed doors. I feel bad for the daughter as well being tossed around from home to home but she is better off not being in a home environment such as this one. This 14 year old child needs help especially is he is "liking" and commenting on You Tube about the Columbine shootings. That is just sickening!!

How can any living soul who admits to not watching this boy's online collection of weapon making instructions or reading his threats against innocent children pretend to be so holier-than-thou? It's mind boggling. If you haven't seen the evidence for yourself, keep quiet. Those of us who have seen it are outraged. These are the exact warning signs other people missed in Columbine, in Aurora, at VA Tech, in Atlanta a few years ago -- anywhere a nice, polite young guy has gone insane. These people always start somewhere. He already moved from blowing craters in his backyard to blowing up public property (allegedly). That's called escalation... Is it sad? Sure. Does the kid deserve prayers? Sure, if you're Christian. Should people be made out to be horrible humans because they don't want this kid back in their community? No.

Here is everything you guys need to read about Diana vs. The Police:

http://canton.11alive.com/news/news/127865-update-two-adults-two-juveniles-arrested-canton-pipe-bomb-scare

I'll take their word for it.

Aw geez. Since when did I become an enemy of the police??? (Diana vs. the police.) And you think a two-day old article is going to make a difference? Those reporters showed up on my porch and worked me over even after I told them I didn't want to talk about it. And all I said was I know the boy, I don't think he's a bad kid, and I repeated what his mother told me. So that makes me an enemy? That qualifies me to be called all sorts of names by people who have never met me?

And by the way, if you want news, check out the video from yesterday afternoon on wsbtv.com. (I can't provide a link because it's embedded, but if you go to their video list and scroll down, you'll find a video labeled "Parents charged in explosives discovery defend themselves." Meet my neighbors. They're very nice people who are going through the worst time in their lives. Oh, but you'll probably just say they're lying... Go ahead. It's so much easier to throw stones from your safe high (anonymous) tower, condemning a kid you've never met, than for me to stand in the pit (using my real name) with my neighbors and defend what I believe about their family.

I'm SO done. Not going to read any more of these posts, so don't even bother responding.

Did I here or see in one of these stories that this boy had blown up a commode and a paper towel dispenser in the bathrooms at the clubhouse in his neighborhood before July 4th? If this is true, then why on earth would you give your child leftover fireworks? The Mom said she had seen some red flags and thought she had addressed them????????????

this is my little brother he has had a hard life he has been through a lot of stuff and he is confused he does things to try to be cool and impress people to like him but he wasn't thinking clearly about this and the consequences of this he is just a kid and i love him more than anything sandy and brian are terrific parents they took my brother and sister in and gave them a place to live when they had nothing but the clothes on there backs and i am sick and tired of people saying they are bad parents they wanted nothing more than to give them kids everything they wanted and needed when my brother came to them at the age of 8 he couldn't even read he wasn't even in school but they hired private tutors to teach him so he could be successful in life but he started hanging with wrong crowd and doing bad things maybe this will teach him a lesson and teach him to think before he acts and he will be a better person after its all said and done

I think that if your 14 year old is making videos and putting them on facebook and youtube you should be controlling that. hmm whats her definition of a red flag? "my son blowed up a toilet" I should give him more fire works... BAD IDEA!!!! All im saying is we have to be more careful what we are putting in our kids lives, we HAVE to set examples and show them how to live the right life. Some kids need more attention and when they have had a hard life like him then yeah they are more than likely to act up and to try and get the attention they want and need. His real dad was trying to get his finances situated and was never given the opportunity to even have him in his life. I think that everyone should know the whole story of how he came into the lives of the Howell's before they start judging, but if your child already has been in trouble with the law once what makes you think you can change them? Address the situation and change things!