Ex-Friend: Gude Wanted to Kill Obama
GREENBELT, Md. - A former friend of a young Bethesda man facing sentencing for having bomb-making chemicals said in court Friday that the man "intensely disliked" President Barack Obama and plotted to assassinate him.
A sentencing hearing resumed Friday in U.S. District Court for 20-year-old Collin McKenzie-Gude, who pleaded guilty in September.
Eighteen-year-old Patrick Yevsukov testified in U.S. District Court that McKenzie-Gude disliked then-presidential candidate Obama's views on firearms possession and was afraid of losing his guns if Obama was elected and enacted "sweeping" gun control laws.
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