(Salt Lake City, Utah) A 27-year-old man, Benjamin Speakman, was arrested earlier this month by federal agents for allegedly plotting to storm a Mormon temple and start shooting people. On Tuesday, Speakman was charged in U.S. District Court with one count of possession of an unregistered sawed-off shotgun.
Police were initially alerted by an employee of the Valley Mental Health facility who was told by Speakman that he had weapons and planned to kill. According to BATFE agent Gregory Hopkins, officers immediately searched Speakman's pickup truck.
Officers found a handgun and two loaded magazines in the center console and the sawed-off shotgun behind the driver's seat.It seems that Speakman carries issues with his wife and mother-in-law, but it's unknown why he targeted the Mormon church.
"Benjamin Speakman told the officer he thought about shooting his wife and mother-in-law," Hopkins wrote. "Benjamin Speakman told the officer he was planning to go into an LDS temple and start shooting people in the temple with his AK-47 and then shoot himself with the shotgun."
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