Student At Another Missouri University Charged With Threatening To Kill Black People

By Emma G. Gallegos in News on Nov 12, 2015 4:51PM

A second person has been arrested for making threats against black people on social media at yet another Missouri university.

Connor B. Stottlemyre, 19, a native of Blue Springs and a freshman at Northwest Missouri State University was arrested 11 a.m. Wednesday for threatening to shoot black people, according to the St. Louis Post Dispatch. He was arrested in his dormitory and he is being held on suspicion of making terrorist threats.

University spokesman Mark Hornickel told the Dispatch that the threatening message said, "I'm gonna shoot any black people tomorrow, so be ready." The message was posted on Yik Yak, a social media app popular on college campuses that allows people to post anonymous messages. (The company has released a statement about everything happening in Mizzou).

Stottlemyre's alleged crime bears a strong resemblance to what has been happening at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Hunter Park, 19, was arrested yesterday for threatening to shoot black students at Mizzou on Yik Yak, though the man arrested lives nearly two hours from campus.

Police aren't certain if the threats at Northwest Missouri State University were aimed at or connected to what is going on at Mizzou. Protesters with the group Concerned Student 1950 have been protesting the racial harassment and aggression at the state's flagship university, and they've managed to force the resignation of University of Missouri System President Tim Wolfe.

Faculty and staff have been in the spotlight for their responses to the the turmoil on campus. A professor on campus who told students that skipping an exam because of would be allowing the "bullies" to win later apologized and offered up his resignation. Mizzou's director of Greek Life & Leadership has been put on leave after she physically blocked a student photographer from taking photos of protesters. And Melissa Click resigned from her position at the school's J-school for requesting "muscle" to get rid of a videographer.

Anyone with information about the threats at Northwestern Missouri State University is asked to call the school's police at (660) 562-1254.