Man Pleads Guilty to Building, Delivering Homemade Bomb to Kill Romantic Rival
A man who built a homemade bomb before gift-wrapping it and driving it seven hours to deliver it to his romantic rival and gravely injuring him in an attempt to kill him has pleaded guilty to federal charges, authorities have announced.
The incident began in Oct. 2020 when Clayton Alexander McCoy, a 32-year-old man from Chesterfield Ohio, expressed romantic feelings for a woman he knew for several years through a live action role-playing game and social club. The woman responded by telling him she did not share the same feelings about him and was in a relationship with somebody else who McCoy also reportedly knew from the same club, the U.S. Attorney’s Office from the District of Maryland said in a press release.
“McCoy devised a plan to build and deliver a bomb to [the man’s] house with the intent to kill [him] in order to remove him as a romantic rival,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.
