Woman, 20, Jailed In SFA Massacre Threat
April 23, 2009 by national
Filed under Incident Reports
A 20-year-old Stephen F. Austin State University student was in jail Thursday, a day after her arrest on allegations that she posted signs on and near campus last week that threatened a deadly mass shooting.
Jennifer Grant, a sophomore from Palestine, is a tenant of The Grove, the off-campus apartment complex where several signs appeared April 16. They warned that “10 people will be killed and shot at The Grove.”
A notice on the university Web site said campus police arrested Grant and booked her into the Nacogdoches County Jail. The District Attorney’s Office had no record of an attorney for Grant. A jail official said she was being arraigned Thursday morning.
The signs were found on the second anniversary of the Virginia Tech massacre that left 32 people dead.
SFA Police Chief Marc Cossich said in Thursday’s Nacogdoches Daily Sentinel the investigation remained active but that no more arrests were expected. Cossich said information leading to the arrest came from a variety of sources.
Officials said it was too early to comment on a possible motive.
A student who said he knew Grant said he was surprised by the arrest.
