Sedalia man accused of making threats at children’s dance practice, putting ‘curse’ on parents

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

A Sedalia man has been charged with a felony after authorities claim he made threats at parents during a children’s dance practice Tuesday at Convention Hall in Liberty Park.

Justin McIlroy was charged on Thursday with second-degree making a terroristic threat. He is being held at the Pettis County Jail.

The probable cause statement says Sedalia police were called at 5:20 p.m. Tuesday for a report of a man threatening parents. Someone who arrived at the hall to open the class saw McIlroy in the vestibule of the building while he was “swinging at things that were not there, chanting and playing music off his phone at the loudest it could go,” the statement says.

McIlroy allegedly was yelling at parents while the young children were going up the stairs in the building, the statement says. He allegedly made threats and tried to put a “curse on” people in the area, the statement says. A father of one of the children told McIlroy to leave because the youth, parents and instructors were “uncomfortable” with McIlroy being there, the statement says.

McIlroy allegedly threatened to “blow up the building” as he left, the statement says.

Police found him near the pond of the park and McIlroy allegedly threatened to kill the officer before he was detained.