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Monday, March 12, 2012

UMD Student Arrested For Threatening a Mass Shooting on Campus

COLLEGE PARK, Md. - A University of Maryland student has been arrested for posting online that he would go on a campus "shooting rampage."

University of Maryland Police say Alexander Song posted comments late Saturday evening that said, "I'm thinking about going on a shooting rampage all around campus until the police come and kill me," and "hopefully I kill enough people to make it to national news" and "stay away from the Mall tomorrow at 1:30."

Another poster tried to talk him out of it.

"Trust me, no matter how tough things seem now, there's good people in the world who are willing to help you and will make sure that you find the happiness you deserve. Don't turn your back on them."

Marc Limansky, a spokesman for the University of Maryland police department, says Song's comments were posted to Reddit, as well as to the anonymous chat site Omegle.

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