MU threat suspect bonds out of jail

ABC 17 confirmed a suspect who was arrested for posting online threats to the MU campus has bonded out of jail Wednesday night.

A Boone County judge approved a $10,000 bond for Hunter Park early on Wednesday. Park was initially held without bond, but on Wednesday he was granted access to home detention with a GPS monitoring device.

The court decided on the changes with a few conditions, which includes no access to the internet and a psychiatric evaluation.

Around 50 people were in court to support Park and his family.

Jeff Hillbrenner, Park’s attorney, asked Judge Kimberly Shaw to lower the bond by citing two other similar situations in which threats were made over social media in both Phelps and Nodaway County.

Connor Stottlemyer, a student at Northwest Missouri State University, was also arrested last week for making a threat toward black students on a social media site. He was later released on a $10,000 bond.

Campus officials were flooded with calls last week, after three specific posts were made on the site, YikYak.

According to a probable cause statement, Park admitted to making the posts in front of two MU police officers in his dorm room at Missouri S&T in Rolla, but when asked if the posts “were a saber rattling incident; [Park] replied ‘pretty much.'”

Park’s next court date is scheduled for December 23. His attorney told the court he has since withdrawn from school.