Police arrested 24-year-old Kyle Bangayan of California after he wrote on Facebook that if people don't stop posting about the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings on the social network, then he would do the same thing in Los Angeles
Two men have been arrested after separately threatening in messages posted online to carry out shootings at schools in the aftermath of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, which left 20 children and six adults dead.
Police arrested 24-year-old Kyle Bangayan of California and 19-year-old Korry Martinson of Washington state after both men posted threats to their Facebook accounts.
Bangayan was arrested at his parents' home in Hollywood, where authorities recovered nine firearms, including rifles, handguns and a shotgun. He was booked into Men's Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles and held on a $500,000 bail.
Late Monday, prosecutors announced they would not file charges against Bangayan, however.
He told police that he was joking when he wrote on Facebook that if people don't stop posting about the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings on the social network, then he would do the same thing in Los Angeles.
Bangayan had also written on his Facebook account that Americans needed to get over the shootings because thousands of children die in other countries regularly.
Bangayan is apparently being let go because he had
made no specific threat against a school or person.
FBI agents talked to his parents, searched his apartment and car, and found nothing threatening.
Martinson, on the other hand, is still in police custody after he threatened on Facebook to 'shoot up every school within a 100-mile radius' if his gun rights were taken away after the Connecticut school massacre.
Washington state police arrested Korry Martinson, 19, who threatened on Facebook to 'shoot up every school within a 100-mile radius'
The threat was seen by several people who reported it to police and to Martinson's mother.
The mother confronted her son about the posting on Friday evening and they got into an argument over it and he fled before police arrived at his home, according tokomonews.com.
Authorities spent the weekend searching for him, until Martinson finally turned himself in on Sunday. He has been booked at Skagit County Jail while police investigate his threats.
Martinson had reportedly posted on his Facebook:
'Okay, so about that shooting of the little kids.
'I would personally like to thank the man who did this. You will [be] looked upon as a hero in my eyes. You have rid the world of 20 future s***heads and w****s.
'I say good riddance, and that we need more people like you. It's the government's fault as to why these things happen.
'If this causes our gun laws to be taken away, to the point as to where I cannot own a gun, I will personally get my sawed off double barreled shotgun and my AK-47 and go shoot up every school within a 100-mile radius of my current location.'
Martinson had no criminal record before making the Facebook threat.
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