She sat Friday outside 41B District Court with a neighbor, her eyes red and watery as she described Andrew as a kind teenager who tends to his autistic brother. He struggled with depression two years ago and has bounced among three high schools, she said, but otherwise he's a normal teenager.
"I always thought he would be somebody someday," Osantowski, 51, said of her son. "I always thought he would be this wonderful person. "I think he's just been brainwashed by this Nazi stuff he had."
Andrew Osantowski's only public comments Friday came during his video arraignment. Osantowski, his pale skin and blond hair a stark contrast to his black T-shirt, was polite and composed when asked for his thoughts on bond by Magistrate John Russi.
"I'd like to participate in, like, antidrug programs or antiviolence programs. Anything I can do to help the community," Osantowski said, just after requesting a court-appointed attorney.
Russi told him that was a separate issue and set a total bond at $1.35 million for all of the charges.
Osantowski faces one count of threatening an act of terrorism, a 20-year felony, and three counts of receiving and concealing stolen firearms, a 10-year felony. Other charges include larceny, computer crimes and threatening a witness.
His father came on-screen a short time later to face charges of concealing stolen firearms and conspiring to conceal. He told the magistrate, "I'm a good citizen," before his bond was set at $600,000. Queentry is charged with possessing explosives, maintaining a drug house and marijuana possession. His bond is $100,000.
Preliminary exams for all three are scheduled for Sept. 30.
Queentry, a recent hire at a Rochester food service, moved to Clinton Township about a year and a half ago with his wife and kids but rarely socialized with anyone on the block, neighbors said. During the Fourth of July holiday, Queentry would often set off homemade fireworks in front of the house.
Marvin Osantowski is an autoworker on disability with a penchant for neighborhood causes. He is a member of the Knights of Columbus and a founding member of a local Catholic church. In 2000, he was appointed to the township committee after protesting a road expansion in his neighborhood. Fellow members didn't notice anything unusual. In fact, he seemed like a nice man, said Jason Davidson, who is the vice president of the Clintondale Community Schools Board of Education.
Article comments
1 - Adam Bloom
What does the book have to do with the rest of the post?
2 - Jennifer Mitts
Adam, a girl discovered things about this boy online. The beginning and the end of the article allude to that.
I must say, this is very interesting. I wish there were some way to turn back the clock and make kids less and less violent instead of more and more violent. What are we doing that's causing this? How can we stop it?
3 - bhw
Turn off your TV. Stop going to blockbuster "action" movies.
Those would probably be a good start.
4 - Mac Diva
Let's just say that if Diva, who doesn't do pain, relents and has a child, she will know what is under his bed. And, it had better be dust bunnies.
But, seriously, I believe the parents usually know about the firepower. In this case, Pops probably helped acquire the guns, as did Kip Kinkel's. Giving the kid what he wants so he will stop whining is not the best policy.
5 - bhw
It sounds like this particular kid's father is a little loopy, to say the least. Not the best one to be checking under his bed for dust bunnies.