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Two things bothered Donald Moss about the tip he received on the night of Sunday, April 5, 2009.
One was the location: a townhome. If someone was assembling bombs there, everyone in the adjacent units could be in danger.

VIRGINIA BEACH A usually stoic Philip Bay let out a sound of relief. At 19, the former Landstown High School student potentially faced a life sentence for a planned massacre on Virginia Beach classmates in April 2009. Commonwealth's Attorney Harvey Bryant had just asked for at least two decades behind bars.

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The two teenage co-conspirators drawn into a plot to blow up Landstown High School were sentenced Monday to supervised probation.

VIRGINIA BEACH Philip Bay could spend the rest of his life in prison for plotting an attack on Landstown High School with sawed-off shotguns and homemade explosives. A jury deliberated for about two hours Monday afternoon before rejecting the defense's contention that Bay was not guilty by reason of insanity and returning guilty verdicts on each of the 18 felony charges he faced.

VIRGINIA BEACH The first mental health expert to interview Philip Bay after he was charged with planning an attack on Landstown High School found the teenager sharp, well-spoken and sane. Forensic psychologist David Keenan spoke with Bay within days of his arrest in April 2009 at the behest of the public defender initially appointed to defend him.

VIRGINIA BEACH Untreated mental illness and a tumultuous childhood ultimately left Philip Bay out of touch with reality when he set out to kill at least 30 people at Landstown High School in April 2009, three expert witnesses testified Thursday in Circuit Court .

VIRGINIA BEACH Philip Bay folds his hands, bows his head and crosses himself at a small table inside a police interview room as he waits for his mother to return with a detective. When investigator Roger Frederick arrives, he tells Bay he wants to know everything about an alleged plot against Landstown High School.

VIRGINIA BEACH Brandyn Golias was tired of the bullying. Taunts by fellow Landstown High School students had escalated to physical attacks by the start of his sophomore year in 2008. So he joined a classmate who was planning to attack the school with shotguns and explosives, Golias testified in Circuit Court on Tuesday.

VIRGINIA BEACH Philip Bay planned the day of attack on Landstown High School in meticulous detail, a prosecutor said.

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The jury trial of a former Landstown High School student accused of plotting to kill dozens of his classmates in a terrorist attack on the school was set to begin this morning in Circuit Court.