Motorcade Map Found at House Of Bomb Suspect

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Weapons and Explosives Found in Md. Teen's Home

Footage of weapons and explosive chemicals retrieved by the Montgomery County Bomb Squad at the Bethesda, Md. home of 18-year-old Collin McKenzie-Gude on Tuesday.

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A former teacher of the two remembered them as "quiet, good-natured students."

"They were St. John's kids. Just good kids," said Matt Feldman, who now teaches at a different private school. "There was nothing dark about them at all."

At a bond hearing yesterday, McKenzie-Gude's image was broadcast from the Montgomery jail on a courtroom video monitor. McKenzie-Gude, 5-foot-5 and 153 pounds, stood straight with his hands clasped in front of him. His parents sat in the courtroom, with his father holding four large envelopes in his lap.

Peter Feeney, Montgomery assistant state's attorney, provided no details about the Camp David map or the document on a possible long-range killing. He called the latter "a clandestine operations document which appears to describe how to kill somebody at a distance of 200 meters."

Prosecutors said that when McKenzie-Gude learned last week that detectives wanted to search his house, he panicked and drove to White Flint Mall.

At a second-level parking garage outside Bloomingdale's, authorities said, he got out of his sport-utility vehicle and walked up to a 78-year-old man trying to lock his car. McKenzie-Gude demanded the keys, police said. When the man refused, McKenzie-Gude struck the man with his elbows, knocked him to the ground and repeatedly struck him to prevent the man from standing, the arrest affidavit stated.

McKenzie-Gude took the keys from the man but could not start the car and fled, police said.

"It's unconscionable, it's inexcusable, I don't know what you want to call it, to attack a 78-year-old," said District Court Judge J. Michael Conroy, who kept McKenzie-Gude in jail at a relatively high bond of $750,000. Conroy reduced the original bond by $250,000.

McKenzie-Gude was born Oct. 22, 1989, and grew up in a house on Rockhurst Road, north of the Capital Beltway, according to a motion filed by his lawyer to reduce the bond. He attended Woods Academy in Bethesda and St. John's College High, a Catholic private school with a strong military background. At St. John's, he joined the junior ROTC and was a rifle team member.

McKenzie-Gude's father had served in the Air Force during the Vietnam War, as did his grandfather, also named Joseph Gude, who served in the Army.

A source with direct knowledge of the investigation, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the case is ongoing, said investigators believe that McKenzie-Gude's father is a "straight shooter" who has faith in his son and was willing to buy him many things.

Roman Franklin, who was a year ahead of McKenzie-Gude at St. John's, said he remembers McKenzie-Gude as an eager student who sat in front of the U.S. government classroom, answered questions and added to the discussion. "He just seemed like an all-around good kid," said Franklin, now a student at Temple University.