http://www.buffalonews.com/cityregion/story/727173.htmlConfesses to placing bomb in church but says it had no anti-black motive Updated: July 08, 2009, 7:31 AM
After finding a pipe bomb inside a predominantly African-American church Saturday, authorities thought they had a hate crime on their hands.
But the troubled 28-year-old man who was arrested Tuesday in connection with the incident told federal agents that he was motivated by anger at himself.
Richard M. Blonski, who is white, also told agents that he had consumed a huge amount of Southern Comfort whiskey and “a bunch of beers” before trying to bomb Redeeming Fire Fellowship Church on Lewis Street.
“I do not know why I put the pipe bomb into the church,” Blonski told the U. S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. “I did not target the church because they were black.