HELENA-WEST HELENA, Ark. (AP) — The family of an 18-year-old man accused of plotting a national killing spree that would end with the assassination of Barack Obama says he didn’t like black people, but the plot wasn’t serious.
Kayla Schlesselman (SLESH’-sil-man) said Tuesday at the family’s Arkansas home that she talked to her brother Paul and that “he’s sorry about everything he’s done.” He’s accused of hatching the plot with another teen in Tennessee.
She says her brother didn’t like their tiny community of Helena-West Helna because it was prominently black. She also says he believed he was the master race, and would say things like “white power” and “Heil Hitler.”
But the teen’s father, Mike, says he doesn’t believe his son would have carried out the plot and that it was “just a lot of talk.”
 
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