Northwest Missouri State Univ. teacher arrested for online threat

[cbdo2007]

Northwest teacher arrested after threat

Posted: Friday, September 6, 2013 6:56 am | Updated: 11:21 am, Fri Sep 6, 2013.
By Kristin Hoppa | St. Joseph News-Press


MARYVILLE, Mo. – A Northwest Missouri State University professor is in custody after making a violent online threat on a social network site Wednesday.

Matthew Rouch, 57, of Maryville, was arrested by campus police Thursday afternoon in reference to an investigative hold of making “terrorist threats,” said Nodaway County Sheriff Darren White. According to the university’s staff directory, Mr. Rouch is an instructor with the department of communications and mass media.

Mr. Rouch was arrested after he allegedly posted an online statement on Facebook, which came to the university’s attention Sept. 4.

The statement read: "By October, I'll be wanting to get up to the top of the bell tower with a high-powered rifle, with a good scope and probably a gatling gun as well."

http://www.newspressnow.com/news/local_news/article_d046d1ac-5ea9-5878-b28b-97bb4a1c7efe.html

[KansDem]

1. I wonder what was going to happen between now and October...

By October, I'll be wanting to get up to the top of the bell tower with a high-powered rifle, with a good scope and probably a gatling gun as well

...that would drive him to do this?

[Lurks Often]

2. Maybe nothing, students who know him say he was joking

according to the link. It's certainly dark humor and not something he should have posted online.