US guardsman in military leak case ‘wanted to kill a ton of people’

US guardsman in military leak case ‘wanted to kill a ton of people’
Jack Teixeira, right (Margaret Small via AP, File)

The Massachusetts Air National Guardsman accused of leaking highly classified military documents kept an arsenal of guns and said on social media that he would like to kill a “ton of people”, prosecutors said.

The judge at 21-year-old Jack Teixeira’s detention hearing put off an immediate decision on whether he should be kept in custody until his trial or released to home confinement or under other conditions.

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