PHILIPPI, W.Va. (AP) — Authorities in West Virginia have identified an Alderson Broaddus University student accused of making a campus threat on social media.
Media outlets report 21-year-old Nathan Michael Macek of Guysville, Ohio, was arrested Monday on a charge of making terroristic threats.
According to a criminal complaint, Macek says he sent a photo of himself to four friends as a joke. It shows him holding a gun with the caption, “I’m going to shoot up AB.”
Barbour County Prosecutor Thomas Hoxie says Macek was arrested in an off-campus fraternity house after another student contacted campus security.
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It wasn’t immediately known whether Macek has an attorney who could comment on the charge.
Phillipi is about 130 miles (209 kilometers) south of Pittsburgh.