CHESTERFIELD, S.C. — A teenager accused of plotting to bomb his high school is a straight-A student whose parents sought help from mental health experts when he slammed his head into a wall last week, authorities said Monday.
Ryan Schallenberger was taken to a hospital three days before his Saturday arrest after he made a 4-inch indentation in the wallboard, prosecutor Jay Hodge said at a hearing.
Schallenberger, 18, was not hurt badly and his parents called a mental health clinic that gave no help, Hodge said.
Hodge said he plans to ask that Schallenberger undergo a mental evaluation at the teenager’s bail hearing today.
Schallenberger was arrested after his parents called police because he had ordered 10 pounds of ammonium nitrate, a fertilizer that was employed as an explosive in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
