“He’s a good kid,” Dan Shannon told CBS Los Angeles about his 26-year-old grandson, Nicholas John Roske. Roske, from Simi Valley, California, was charged with attempted murder of a Supreme Court justice after he was arrested near Kavanaugh’s home in Maryland early Wednesday, armed with a Glock 17 pistol and a knife. He also had ammunition, zippers, pepper spray, tape and other items he told police he planned to use to break into Cavanaugh’s house and kill him, according to a criminal complaint. FBI agents raided Roske’s home in California after receiving a search warrant Wednesday night. “They were always good people, so it’s more of a surprise than anything else,” neighbor Zach Quadri told CBS’s family’s CBS. Another neighbor, Michael Holbrooke, told VC Star that the family had kept to itself and had never caused any problems. Nicholas John Roske has been arrested for allegedly threatening to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. “They are wonderful neighbors,” he said. “I’m very dumb.” A woman who told The Post she was a “best friend” of Roske’s mom, but broke up years ago, said she was “shocked” to learn of Roske’s alleged conspiracy. “They are so quiet, they are just very good people, they are like everyone else,” said Mary, who declined to give her last name. “They were never like people with guns or anything like that, they had no case or anything, they just went to work and lived their lives, raised their children, did what everyone else does.” He added: “I just know he has to tear them apart.” Mary said she last saw the family at Disneyland about six years ago, when she first met Roske. He recalled that Roske looked “very normal”. Roske had no previous encounters with police officers in his hometown – except for a minor traffic violation in 2015, the Cmdr of the Simi Valley Police Department. said Ritchie Liu. A Simi Valley Unified School District spokesman confirmed to local media that Roske had graduated from Simi Valley High School in 2014 and had been on the cross-country team for two years. Roske’s grandfather, Dan Shannon, said the charges against him were “extremely out of place”. KCBS-TVRoske was arrested near Kavanaugh’s home in Chevy Chase, Maryland, armed with a Glock 17 pistol and a knife. Photo by Nathan Howard / Getty Images He worked at Valley Guard Pest Control in Simi Valley last year, but no longer works there, according to the company. It was not immediately clear when he left or under what circumstances. Police in Montgomery County, Maryland, arrested Roske near Cavanaugh’s home after calling 911 and telling the pilot he had “suicidal thoughts” and had a gun in his suitcase. Roske said he was angry about a leaked Supreme Court opinion that was expected to overturn Roe v. Wade and the shooting at a school in Uvalde, Texas that left 19 students and two teachers dead, according to court documents. Roske said he was outraged by the leaked draft indicating that the Supreme Court was likely to overturn Roe v. Wade and the recent mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas. REUTERS / Joshua Roberts / File Photo Roske’s grandfather insisted he was a “good kid”. Facebook He also believed that Cavanaugh would relax gun control laws and plotted to kill justice after he found his internet address in an unfortunate attempt to “give his life a purpose,” Roske was quoted as saying. police officers. He made his first appearance in federal court in Maryland on Wednesday, where he stopped several times while answering routine questions from U.S. Judge Timothy Sullivan. Asked if he understood what was going on and if he was thinking clearly, Roske paused and then said, “I think I have a reasonable understanding, but I would not say I am thinking clearly.” Roske added that he was taking medication, but did not specify what it was or why he was taking it.
