Aug 25, 2009 9:36 am US/Pacific
San Mateo Bomb Suspect ID'd; Home Raided
SAN MATEO (CBS 5) ―
The 17-year old former student arrested for setting off two bombs at San Mateo's Hillsdale High School was identified late Monday as Alex Youshock, according to more than a half dozen of the suspect's neighbors, classmates and teachers interviewed by CBS 5.
Agents with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) and local police searched the suspect's apartment on Casa de Campo Street in San Mateo on Monday evening.
They removed bags of evidence from the boy's apartment, including what San Mateo police Lt. Mike Brunicardi described as "bomb making materials."
Police said they were not naming the suspect because he is a minor.
14-year-old Moises Molina said officers asked him if he knew Youshock, and showed Moises a photo of the boy who lives in the apartment.
"I seen him getting arrested and yeah, that was him," said Molina.
Next door neighbor, April de Guzman, said she shared high school and middle classes with Youshock.
"He didn't talk much," Guzman said. "He was really quiet, didn't have that many friends. Kept to himself."
Earlier in the day, the San Mateo County District Attorney's Office said it was still determing the charges that the boy would face - and whether or not he would stand trial as an adult.
Meantime, Hillsdale High School was to remain closed on Tuesday because school officials said they needed additional time to repair the bomb damage.
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