Columbia man charged for alleged threatening text messages mentioning school
EDITOR'S NOTE: The story has been corrected to say Brown was arrested Thursday.
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
Prosecutors charged a Columbia man Thursday with making a terrorist threat related to a school.
Carlos D. Brown Jr., 38, was charged with second-degree making a terrorist threat and first-degree harassment, both felonies. He was not listed on the Boone County Jail roster Thursday afternoon and is wanted without bond.
A probable cause statement says Brown texted a female whose age isn't listed threatening to shoot another person and saying "I'll be at your school tomorrow."
Police also received a video of Brown saying he would shoot another person in the face, the statement says. Officers arrested Brown on Thursday morning on Demaret Drive.
Brown allowed a search of his cellphone at the Columbia Police Department. The search turned up threatening messages in a deleted folder, according to the statement. He also admitted to sending threatening messages when police showed him the messages, the statement says.
Brown allegedly admitted there was no good reason to tell the victim he would shoot them in the face, the statement says.
Police say there is no indication he ever went onto school property.
Brown was charged in May with unlawful use of a weapon, armed criminal action, illegal gun possession and two counts of child endangerment.
According to the heavily redacted probable cause statement, Brown allegedly got into an argument with a woman in the parking lot of an apartment complex in the 2600 block of Jacobs Place.
Brown then allegedly went inside a white sedan, drove about 40 feet away and fired a gun three times into the air, according to the probable cause statement. Brown then allegedly fired a fourth shot toward a dumpster, the statement says.
