Suspect identified after allegedly posting terrorist threats to Missouri campus

(ABC News) — The man who allegedly made online threats at the University of Missouri campus has been identified. Hunter Park, 19, was arrested at 1:50 a.m. for making a terrorist threat, the University of Missouri Police Department said in a statement. Park posted the threats on the social media app Yik Yak. The threats allegedly said “I’m going to stand my ground tomorrow and shoot every black person I see” and “Well tomorrow mizzou will really make national news. Don’t go to campus tomorrow,” police reported earlier. Park, who is white, was arrested in the town of Rolla, Mo., located about 90 miles south of the University of Missouri campus in Columbia. Park is a student at Missouri University Science and Technology, according to the school. The campus is located in Rolla. “Threats of violence of any kind are not tolerated,” Missouri S&T Chancellor Cheryl B. Schrader said in a statement released by the school. The school’s statement said Park was arrested inside the Thomas Jefferson Residence Hall in Rolla and no weapons were found during an investigation. He is being held on $4,500 bond at Boone County Jail in Columbia. Earlier this morning, there were also reports that members of the KKK were on campus and at least two campus buildings were locked down — including the Black Culture Center — but university officials have since given the all-clear and confirmed that there is “no immediate threat.” This incident comes just a day after racial tensions reached a boiling point, forcing the university’s president, Tim Wolfe, to resign over the handling of what students called “institutional racism” on campus.