NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — A Columbia man has pleaded guilty to attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and attempting to destroy an energy facility in Nashville.

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According to court documents, in June 2024, Skyler Philippi communicated to a confidential human source that he wanted to commit a mass shooting at a YMCA facility located in or around Columbia, Tennessee.

“For months, Philippi planned what he had hoped would be a devastating attack on Nashville’s energy infrastructure. He acquired what he believed to be explosives, surveilled his target, and equipped a drone to attack an electrical substation. Motivated by a violent ideology, Philippi wanted ‘to do somethi

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