Report: YouTube Videos Allegedly Linked to Suspect in Pipe Bomb Case

The attorney for the  told WSB-TV that YouTube instructional videos about pipe bombs came from the suspect's account.

"It's my understanding that this is my client's Internet account," Ashleigh Merchant, the suspect's attorney, told WSB-TV's Mark Winne. "I think it's a huge problem."

Eight months ago, someone with the same YouTube account posted this comment under a video about one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history, the 1999 Columbine High School massacre:

I am 15 and i make pipe bombs and other s---. Those propane tanks, idk how they had ir set up. But i would use one propane tank, duct tape nails and marbles around, glass jars of gas taped on, with a flash

Powder pipe bombs on top. Now that take out five hundred easy. Also u could put some muster gas in it and in the airvent. Then chained every door but the front. Wen they ran out set up mines and trip wires. Then start fireing and throw pipebombs with alot of shrapnal and gas.

Around the same time, this comment, also from the same YouTube username, appeared under a news report about a bomb at a Detroit school:

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 h---.

Todd Vande Zande, Canton's assistant police chief, said last week that he was unaware of any threats from the suspect.

According to the WSB-TV report, which did not mention the comments under the YouTube videos about Columbine and the Detroit school bomb, authorities are aware of the existence of the pipe bomb instructional videos.

When Canton-Sixes Patch asked Canton Police Chief Bob Merchant about the videos last Wednesday, he talked about a Facebook page instead.

"We had information about a juvenile and a Facebook account," he said, "and we have been able to access that and that information is part of our investigation."

The Canton Police Department received a tip last Monday about suspected explosives at 119 Woodbury Lane. Agents with the ATF and the GBI found six devices and detonated one. They were sent to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives crime lab for analysis.

The parents and a male friend of the 14-year-old suspect were arrested. A female juvenile in the suspect's home was turned over to the .

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