“Two days before Charles Bishop killed himself by crashing a small plane into a skyscraper, the 15-year-old student pilot told his best friend to keep an eye on the news,” according to an AP report. “‘He said an airline was thinking of hiring him and he’d be on the news Saturday,’ the friend, Emerson Favreau, said Tuesday.”

Favreau didn’t think much of the claim, since Bishop had said the same thing twice before and nothing had happened. But that Saturday, Bishop, a freshman at East Lake High School, stole an airplane from a flight school at the St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport and crashed it into the 28th floor of the Bank of America Plaza in downtown Tampa.

A note expressing sympathy for Osama bin Laden and support for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks was found in Bishop’s pocket.

On Tuesday, law enforcement officials said Bishop had been prescribed an acne medication whose links to suicide and depression have been the subject of federal inquiries.

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