Missouri man, charged with threat to shoot black students, denied bail

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Source: Reuters

Missouri man, charged with threat to shoot black students, denied bail
Reuters
By Lakshna Mehta and Anthony Romano
7 hours ago

COLUMBIA, Mo. (Reuters) - A 19-year-old white Missouri man charged with making terrorist threats on social media to shoot black students at the University of Missouri campus was denied bond on Thursday, and court documents said he expressed a "deep interest" in a recent Oregon school massacre.

Hunter M. Park, of Lake St. Louis, Missouri, appeared in Boone County Circuit Court days after two of the school's top administrators resigned after protests over their handling of racial incidents at the main Columbia campus.

Police said Park's threats had circulated on social media, including a messaging app called Yik Yak, where an anonymous post tagged "Columbia" late on Tuesday read: "I'm going to stand my ground tomorrow and shoot every black person I see."

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On Wednesday, another 19-year-old white college student in Missouri was arrested for making threats on social media against blacks. Connor Stottlemyre, a student at Northwest Missouri State University, was arrested by campus police in Maryville for threatening violence.

Stottlemyre was charged on Thursday in Nodaway County Circuit Court with making terrorist threats, a felony. According to a criminal complaint, he posted a threat on Yik Yak on Nov. 11: "I'm gonna shoot any black ppl tomorrow so be ready," and "I love evil, I can't wait for Northwest to make the news tomorrow."

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