CARLSBAD, Calif. – A California man intent on a terrorist attack was in touch with the 15-year-old girl who wounded nine people at a Madison, Wisconsin, school Mnday, three of them fatally including herself. Natalie Ruonow’s online devices showed communication with 20-year-old Alexander Paffendorf of Carlsbad, California, police said. He talked about attacking a government building with explosives and a gun. Paffendorf has since been arrested for terrorist threats. Police in neither Madison nor Carlsbad commented whether the two shared thoughts on her plans for the Madison school shooting. Said Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes: “We may never know what she was thinking that day.”
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