Armed Man Taken Into Custody at Arkansas State University, Officials Say

“Man in custody at ASU”.

Authorities went to Brad Bartelt’s home on Wednesday after being alerted regarding a post on the suspect’s Facebook page complaining about John Goree, a judge for the Office of Disability Adjudication and Review in Little Rock.

The campus sounded an alarm that made students scurry, but the Jonesboro police chief said it seemed Bartelt posed a greater threat to himself during Thursday’s incident.

He is a former graphic design major at ASU-Newport, university officials said. He said his actions were a “personal issue”, and he didn’t want to hurt innocent people, the witness said. Police said Bartelt had a shotgun and “two propane tanks ready to blow” with him in the truck, accordingto local newspaper The Jonesboro Sun. Its enrollment is more than 13,000, but not all students were on campus Thursday because it was the second day of final exams.

Smith said classes will meet as scheduled Friday.

Police say the gunman who caused a lockdown at Arkansas State University initially wanted to shoot other people at the school, but changed his mind and instead wanted to kill himself.

A spokesman said that the man drove onto campus and crashed his vehicle into a barrier. The driver “cut doughnuts” on the grass, then drove to the building’s doors on the east side.

“The cop got a hold of us…was like you all get out of here. We knew it was serious”. He says everything ended peacefully after crisis negotiators talked to the man for over an hour.

Elliott said at a Thursday news conference that Bartelt never pointed a weapon toward officers.

At one point, Elliott said, the man poured gasoline on his own truck. An Associated Press story from 2012 shows that a student named Brad Bartelt was injured in a truck-driving school accident at Newport that year.

The chief said that, when he arrived, Bartelt was sitting in the truck with his foot out the window and the shotgun visible, yelling something inaudible.

Bartelt told police he was on several psychiatric medications and painkillers.

The truck moved forward, and Bartelt was pinned between the road and the barrel, the report indicated.

“He said they did not treat him right and pay for certain expenses and bills resulting from the injury”, the report said.