WASECA — Students are back in a southeastern Minnesota school after authorities last week foiled a teenager’s suspected plot to attack the school.

Counselors were on hand Monday as students returned to the Waseca junior and senior high school building that was the target of the alleged plot.

Superintendent Tom Lee said the school is “just trying to get back to normal as quickly as we can.”

Court documents say a 17-year-old boy, John David LaDue, planned to kill his family, set a fire to divert first responders, then go to his school with bombs and guns and “kill as many students as he could.”

The planned attack was halted with a concerned citizen became suspicious and called police.

LaDue is charged in juvenile court. Prosecutors want to charge him as an adult. There, he faces four counts of premeditated first-degree attempted murder, two counts of first-degree damage to property and six counts of possession of an explosive device.