Missouri man pleads guilty to threatening blacks on school campus
Source: Reuters
A white 19-year-old Missouri man on Monday pleaded guilty to making terrorist threats to shoot black people on the campus of a state university, his attorney said.
Conner Stottlemyre, one of three Missouri men arrested in November on charges of making threats on social media about shooting people on college campuses, pleaded guilty under a deal with the Nodaway County prosecuting attorney and will serve 30 days in jail and then be on probation for five years, said his attorney Robert Sundell.
Stottlemyre was arrested in November by campus police at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, where he is a student, for threatening violence on that campus. He was arrested days after the president of the University of Missouri resigned amid protests over his handling of reports of racial abuse on campus.
A sentencing hearing has been scheduled for Feb. 22 at which the judge will decide whether to accept the plea deal, Sundell said. In the interim, Stottlemyre, who appeared in Nodaway County Circuit Court in Maryville, Missouri, on Monday, remains free on $10,000 bond.
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US | Mon Jan 11, 2016 3:11pm EST