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Man admits placing bomb outside Colorado Springs NAACP office
Source: Reuters
US | Mon Aug 3, 2015 7:44pm EDT
Man admits placing bomb outside Colorado Springs NAACP office
DENVER | BY KEITH COFFMAN
A 44-year man charged with setting off a pipe bomb in January outside the building that housed the Colorado Springs chapter of the civil rights organization NAACP pleaded guilty on Monday to arson and a weapons charge, prosecutors said.
Thaddeus Murphy entered his plea in Denver federal court to damaging a building used in interstate commerce by explosives or fire, and for being a felon in possession of firearms, U.S. Attorney John Walsh said in a statement.
No one was injured in the Jan. 6 blast which charred an exterior wall of the building that also housed a hair salon.
Federal authorities said at the time they were investigating whether the bombing was a racially motivated crime aimed at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the nation's oldest civil rights group.
Murphy denied targeting the NAACP, and told investigators that he was in financial straits and planted the homemade bomb while in a “rage” at his former accountant, who once had an office in the building, according to a plea agreement filed with the court in June.
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Man admits placing bomb outside Colorado Springs NAACP office
DENVER | BY KEITH COFFMAN
A 44-year man charged with setting off a pipe bomb in January outside the building that housed the Colorado Springs chapter of the civil rights organization NAACP pleaded guilty on Monday to arson and a weapons charge, prosecutors said.
Thaddeus Murphy entered his plea in Denver federal court to damaging a building used in interstate commerce by explosives or fire, and for being a felon in possession of firearms, U.S. Attorney John Walsh said in a statement.
No one was injured in the Jan. 6 blast which charred an exterior wall of the building that also housed a hair salon.
Federal authorities said at the time they were investigating whether the bombing was a racially motivated crime aimed at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the nation's oldest civil rights group.
Murphy denied targeting the NAACP, and told investigators that he was in financial straits and planted the homemade bomb while in a “rage” at his former accountant, who once had an office in the building, according to a plea agreement filed with the court in June.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/03/us-usa-naacp-plea-idUSKCN0Q82DG20150803
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