Student Plot Led to Murder, Official Says
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PATTERSON, Mo. — Three teenagers who had hoped to get on the national news by taking over their boarding school at gunpoint killed a classmate because they thought he would stand in their way, an investigator says.
Will Futrelle, 16, of Boca Raton, Fla., was found dead Monday in the woods at the 160-acre Mountain Park Baptist Academy, a school in the Ozarks for troubled youngsters. He had been beaten and his throat had been slashed.
Anthony Gene Rutherford, 18, of Siloam Springs, Ark., was charged with murder and jailed without bail. Two 15-year-old boys from California were arrested as juveniles.
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