
A Pennsylvania teen jailed on suspicion of plotting a Columbine-style attack on his old school exchanged e-mail with the disturbed student who killed eight people in a similar shooting in Finland, the boy's lawyer said Monday.
But J. David Farrell, the attorney for 14-year-old Dillon Cossey, said his client had no warning that Pekka-Eric Auvinen was preparing the rampage that left eight people dead at his high school outside Helsinki.
"We're certain the facts will show in the long run that Mr. Auvinen was acting completely on his own, without any encouragement from my client or anyone else for that matter," Farrell said.
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CNN's Julian Cummings and Jim Acosta contributed to this report.