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| Student threatens LA campus shooting |
| 2007-12-10 |
| Los Angeles police arrested a 21-year-old Loyola Marymount University student in connection with an online threat to shoot people on campus, officials said Saturday. Police arrested Carlos Huerta, a senior at Loyola, for investigation of making criminal threats. Huerta was taken into custody on Saturday night near his apartment on campus. Huerta is suspected of posting a message that he would shoot and kill as many people as possible on campus before being killed himself by police, authorities said. The threat appeared on Juicycampus.com, a chat board that describes itself as having the "simple mission of enabling online anonymous free speech on college campuses." University officials reported the threat to police around 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, said Los Angeles Police Department spokesman Officer Mike Lopez. Calls made to Loyola were not immediately returned. Some officers were dispatched to patrol the campus as a precaution and campus entrances were restricted. Investigators working with campus officials were eventually able to determine that the threat had come from the computer registered to Huerta, police said. "There was never an indication the threat made was a valid one, and there is no on-going threat to LMU," said Deputy Chief Michael Downing, head of the LAPD Counterterrorism and Criminal Intelligence Bureau. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 No indication? That kind of statement is meant to calm the hysterical, who would otherwise demand a patrolman checking their house every half hour. And perhaps Mr. Huerta had no guns in his house or car when the police picked him up |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-12-10 19:59 |
| #2 "There was never an indication the threat made was a valid one, and there is no on-going threat to LMU," how exactly does one ascertain that this threat isn't a valid one? Yeah, like I want this sheriff protecting my neighborhood, not. |
| Posted by: Jan 2007-12-10 18:00 |
| #1 "There was never an indication the threat made was a valid one, and there is no on-going threat to LMU," Deputy Chief Michael Downing is as insane as the threatening loon. You threaten a shooting spree--you go to a slammer. Maybe after some years in a slammer a lightbulb will light up. Or maybe not. After consistentl locking up these nuts, chances are there won't be many copy-nuts. |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2007-12-10 02:02 |