A 23-year-old woman has been accused by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Northern Ohio of conspiring to kill numerous people in Toledo. According to the Daily Beast, Elizabeth Lecron “idolized mass-murderers like [Dylann] Roof and the perpetrators of the Columbine High School massacre,” and wanted to do her hateful part.
Lecron allegedly planned an attack on a specific Toledo bar, even planning for its entrances and exits. She had previously indicated an interest in other attacks, including freeing farm animals and “targeting a pipeline in an undisclosed location in Georgia,” but had not carried them out, officials alleged. They alleged that she wished to meet anarchists to help carry out the attacks, and that she spoke to undercover FBI agents about her plans in September.
Authorities were tipped off to Lecron’s ideas and actions by “an associate.” Lecron explicitly told undercover agents of her many plans to murder lots of people, at work and at the bar. After Lecron bought the materials to make pipe bombs on Saturday, investigators moved in and raided her place. According to the Daily Beast, Lecron is one of four people known to have corresponded with racist mass murderer Dylann Roof in prison, where he awaits execution for the massacre of nine black parishioners at the Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, South Carolina, on June 17, 2015.