Penn State on alert after Beaver Stadium mass shooting threat posted on Twitter
By Sean Keeley on August 10, 2018
You’d like to assume that an idle threat made on social media is toothless or a sick joke. Unfortunately, we no longer live in a world where such assumptions are okay (and we probably never did).
Thursday night, someone using the Twitter account @DanielTheDuck8 tweeted a mass shooting threat involving Penn State’s Beaver Stadium and an upcoming football game in the 2018 season.
“I have decided that I’m going to commit the biggest mass shooting in history of the world, killing thousands of fans in beaver stadium during one of the games next year,†read the tweet, which also included an expletive-laden hashtag. The tweet also tagged multiple Penn State related accounts, including the football program and State College Police. ...Full story at The Comeback
So much for the element of surprise.
