United States: He admits he carefully tried to assassinate a rival

In the United States, a man was particularly organized and meticulous in assassinating the one he considered his love rival. He created a bomb from scratch, trying to cover his tracks so as not to be exposed. Fortunately, his plan had not worked: he had not killed this rival but he had seriously injured him. He just pleaded guilty to his actions.

Clayton McCoy, of Chesterland, Ohio, had known a woman for years. But in October 2020 he confessed to her that he has feelings for her. However, she had fired him, telling him that he was already in a relationship.

The man then decided to eliminate this rival, explains the Maryland Department of Justice in a Press release. He decided to know the materials and plans needed to build a bomb. So he bought several products to make the explosive powder and other components of his bomb. He bought these various items in different stores, always paying in cash, obviously in the hope of never being exposed.

Clayton McCoy, now 32, had used an angle grinder to cut scrap metal into small triangular pieces. By adding these fragments to his bomb’s main metal tube, he wanted to make sure it was even more dangerous and therefore deadly.

The American fiddled with a trigger again, then placed his bomb in a white gift box wrapped in red ribbon. If someone opened the package, the bomb would explode.

On October 30, 2020, he took his explosive and traveled to Maryland, Caroll County, where the man he considered his rival lived. Then he simply dropped his “gift” on the porch of the man he wanted to get rid of.

The grandfather of the targeted man saw the package and put it in the kitchen. Around 5:30 p.m., the Maryland rival took the package, opened the gift box, heard a kind of hiss, and then the whole thing exploded.

The splinters “ripped his body apart”, hitting him everywhere but especially in the chest and legs, reports CBS. The man had been hospitalized, severely affected, but his life was not in danger. He needed a walker to walk for two weeks and was looked after and cared for for nearly 20 days. On leaving, he still had splinters in his body. Severely damaged, his house remained uninhabitable for more than four months, during the period of the works.

Finally identified, Clayton McCoy was arrested last year. He initially denied him the facts. He now he admitted them and pleaded guilty.

He risks up to 30 years of imprisonment: a maximum penalty of 20 years of imprisonment for transporting explosives with harmful intent and a maximum of further 10 years for possession of an unregistered explosive device. The sentence will be announced later.