This arrest comes just days after the Oxford High School mass shooting in Michigan which left four students dead.
Young said Hagins was heading to a shooting range to practice with his newly purchased firearm. He sold his car to make the purchase.
Detectives discovered that Hagins was “in danger of failing classes” at the college. He is also accused of sexual assault of a female student at the school. And he had received an on-campus traffic ticket Wednesday before selling his car.
It is alleged that after practicing on the range the suspect was heading to the campus to make his social media threats a reality.
Young reports Hagins confesses to making the Snapchat posts, adding: “He may want to claim that it was all a joke and he wasn’t serious about it. But we don’t find anything funny about discussing a mass shooting on campus. If he was looking for attention, he’s got it.”
The police chief asked others to alert authorities in a similar situation. And to follow the two students’ examples who “stepped up came forward and brought this to our attention.”
