Once upon a time, college students could come up with creative ways to get out of classes they really wanted to miss. But it seems the creativity level these days has crossed over into the creepy side.
Bail was set at $7,500 today for Jennifer Grant, 20, a student at my alma mater Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas, on charges of felony terroristic threat. Grant is accused of leaving signs at several different locations around the campus on April 16 warning that “a shooting will occur today and people will die.”
Given that day was the second anniversary of the Virginia Tech massacre in which 32 people were killed, school and police officials treated the threats seriously.
An FBI agent and SFA police officer noticed multiple entries were allegedly made by Grant early that morning in the logs for the access gate of her apartments. The officers investigated the apartment complex because the doom-saying signs also showed up there, according to an arrest affidavit.
Grant reportedly confessed to police after they begin to put the pieces together. It seems she had a presentation due in an 8 a.m. class that morning. It was a class in which she hadn’t been doing so well. A professor told police that she was given three previous extensions for the project, but alas there was no fourth time for a charm.