NORTHFIELD, Minn. – A St. Olaf student suspected of plotting a mass shooting from his dorm room remains in jail pending bail from his mother in Vermont. The mother has told police she will post bail and take her son home. But the county attorney in Northfield, Kathryn Burbank, doesn’t want Waylon Kurts released without assurances that the family’s collection of high-powered weapons in Vermont is sequestered. The worry, said Burbank, is that Kurts could go home and gain access to the guns. In Kurts’ dorm room in April 6, St. Olaf police found dozens of items that could be used in a mass casualty event, along with maps and notes on doing it – although no guns. Kurts, age 20, a St. Olaf sophomore, was immediately suspended by the college. He’s been in jail since.
