A young man was accused of making online threats to shoot black people on the University of Missouri’s Columbia campus that mimicked threats linked to the shooter of the mass shooting at Umpqua Community College on Oct. 1, according to the Register Guard.
19-year-old college sophomore Hunter M. Park was charged with making a terrorist threat. He could face up to seven years in prison. The threats were discovered on Tuesday on the anonymous app Yik Yak, causing many classes on the campus to be cancelled and local businesses to close for the day.
One of the threats on Yik Yak said: “Some of you are alright. Don’t go to campus tomorrow,” was identified by campus police officer Dustin Heckmaster as a similar threat made by the UCC shooter before he killed nine others and himself.
When Park was questioned by Heckmaster on Wednesday morning about the threat, Park said, “I was quoting something”, and when Heckmaster asked if the threat mimicked that of the UCC shooter’s, he replied, “Mmhmm.”