After his friend Devon Arthurs apparently killed two of their roommates, 21-year-old white supremacist Brandon Russell was pulled into the investigation, which led police to arrest him Sunday on suspicion of possessing bomb-making materials, a claim his lawyer denies.
The materials were found in Russells Tampa apartment Friday after police discovered the bodies of 18-year-old Andrew Oneschuk and 22-year-old Jeremy Himmelman. Police say Arthurs, the fourth roommate, confessed to killing the two men, claiming they were neo-Nazis who disrespected his recent conversion to Islam.
[Police] allege that among the chemicals located was more than a pound of ammonium nitrate, Ian J. Goldstein, Russells attorney, told HuffPost on Wednesday. According to experts Ive consulted with, this is a relatively minuscule amount of ammonium nitrate.
Russell, a Florida National Guardsman, is accused of possessing not only ammonium nitrate but also other bomb-making materials and chemicals. Ammonium nitrate was one of the ingredients used by Timothy McVeigh in the 1995 bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City, which claimed the lives of more than 150 people. That bomb required about half a ton of ammonium nitrate.
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Police said Arthurs told them he shot his roommates also because he wanted to prevent them from committing planned acts of domestic terrorism, Assistant State Attorney Ronald Gale wrote in a pretrial motion filed in Floridas Hillsborough County Circuit Court.
Arthurs told police his two deceased roommates, along with Russell, were neo-Nazis, authorities said.
Questioned by police about the explosives, Russell told investigators they belonged to him. He said he was part of a college engineering club in 2013 and that hed used hexamethylene triperoxide diamine (HMTD) to boost homemade rockets and to send balloons into the atmosphere, police said.
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A bomb squad technician disagreed and said the chemical is too energetic and volatile for the types of uses described by Russell, according to court documents . Other chemicals found at the apartment included potassium chlorate, potassium nitrate, nitro methane, hexamine and citric acid.
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