Emory University Student Arrested for Threatening to “Shoot Up” Campus

A student from Emory University’s Oxford College is facing charges after allegedly posting a threat on social media to shoot up the school.

Emory police said Sakamoto acknowledged having used YikYak shortly after midnight Sunday to post the anonymous threat, which read: “I’m shooting up the school”.

Sakamoto was arrested at her residence on Haygood Street shortly before 4 p.m. Sunday.

“Late last night a message on social media said the writer intended indiscriminate acts of violence toward persons on the Oxford College campus”, Bowen wrote.

She was being held in the Newton County jail pending arraignment, the university said.

Channel 2’s Tom Jones talked to several students who said they were so freightened they stayed in their dorms with the lights off until police made the arrest. Emory police responded immediately.

“At this time a sophomore student has confessed to sending the message and has been arrested”, the university told students in an email.

Authorities thwarted a shooting at Oxford College of Emory University, located east of Atlanta. “The ones on quad are who will go first”.

Sakamoto was named to the Oxford campus’ merit list in March, meaning she maintained a grade-point average of 3.0 or better in the fall 2014 semester.

College students and staff across the country are on edge following a gunman’s attack October1 at Umpqua Community College in Oregon that killed 9 and injured 9 others.