" A New Jersey woman who reported racist, threatening messages sent to her on Facebook from a man in Kentucky may have thwarted a school shooting when she reported the posts to authorities in both states, according to officials.
Kentucky State Police received a complaint from the woman on Wednesday, stating that the man -- who resides in Anderson County -- was harassing her on social media, Sgt. Josh Lawson of the Kentucky State Police public affairs division said in a press conference last week.
In one of the messages, the suspect, 21-year-old Dylan Jarrell, allegedly called the woman a "wanna be black woman" and told her he hopes her "black children get hung for you being so stupid," Koeberle Bull, the woman who reported Jarrell to authorities, told The Washington Post. Other messages allegedly read, "There's no such thing as white privileged" and "please you and your monkey children go die."
Bull, who is white, reported the messages because she was worried for her three biracial children, she told The Post. While Bull's Facebook page shows her with her three children, ages 8, 11, and 16, she does not know why Jarrell targeted her, she told the newspaper.
After combing through Jarrell's social media account and finding other concerning posts, police encountered him as he was backing out of his driveway Thursday afternoon and "found evidence of a credible and imminent threat" to the Shelby and Anderson County School districts after interviewing him, Lawson said.
Officers also found a firearm, more than 200 rounds of ammunition, a Kevlar vest, a 100-round high-capacity magazine and a detailed plan of the attack in Jarrell's possession, Lawson said.
Who would have thought these kinds of people could be dangerous? ---