didn’t read whole article but the excerpt said he had a knife and ‘powerful firecracker’? He must have been carrying a very very small backpack if those two items ‘filled his backback with weapons’?
He also had a garrote, handcuffs and other items.
“Inside they found the hunting knife, an M-100 firework, a Swiss Army knife, a flashlight, handcuffs, an 8-foot black rope, a clear water gun, a laptop and a wire typically used to strangle someone called a garrote.”