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LiberalArkie

(15,716 posts) Thu Dec 10, 2015, 06:02 PM Dec 2015

UPDATE: Man with gun who prompted ASU lockdown now in custody

By Max Brantley

UPDATE: After roughly 90 minutes of tension, KAIT-TV in Jonesboro reported shortly before 3 p.m. that an armed man that put the Arkansas State University campus in lockdown had been taken into custody. There have no reports of shots fired. A bomb squad will check the man's truck, which police surrounded shortly after he drove onto the center of campus and was seen holding what appeared to be a shotgun. The sheriff said no shots were fired and no one was hurt.

This is what we reported earlier:

The official Arkansas State University Twitter account at 1:35 p.m. posted this message:

Report of an active shooter spotted at the student union. Everyone should evacuate to the west side of the building and clear the area.

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http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2015/12/10/asu-alerts-students-to-shooter

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UPDATE: Man with gun who prompted ASU lockdown now in custody (Original Post) LiberalArkie Dec 2015 OP

This is the gentleman being taken into custody. LiberalArkie Dec 2015 #1

I think he wanted suicide by cop upaloopa Dec 2015 #3

I'm skeptical that his problems stem from the people around him cheapdate Dec 2015 #2

From what I read he had an accident and tried and failed to get SSDI. LiberalArkie Dec 2015 #4

Always hard to tell. cheapdate Dec 2015 #5

Well we do have a lot of those in Arkansas for sure. LiberalArkie Dec 2015 #6

I'm your neighbor from Tennessee. They sprout like mushrooms here also. n/t cheapdate Dec 2015 #7

Update: Brad Bartelt LiberalArkie Dec 2015 #8

LiberalArkie

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1. This is the gentleman being taken into custody.

Reply to LiberalArkie (Original post)

Thu Dec 10, 2015, 06:05 PM

Dec 2015

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This is the the mans facebook post from yesterday:

upaloopa

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3. I think he wanted suicide by cop

Reply to LiberalArkie (Reply #1)

Thu Dec 10, 2015, 06:16 PM

Dec 2015

He will go to a mental health evaluation now.

If he were Black he would have died

cheapdate

(3,811 posts)

2. I'm skeptical that his problems stem from the people around him

Reply to LiberalArkie (Original post)

Thu Dec 10, 2015, 06:15 PM

Dec 2015

being uncooperative. My working theory will be that his problems stem from him being an asshole. I could be proven wrong.

LiberalArkie

(15,716 posts)

4. From what I read he had an accident and tried and failed to get SSDI.

Reply to cheapdate (Reply #2)

Thu Dec 10, 2015, 06:21 PM

Dec 2015

And then looked like he was hoping for suicide by cop but the Jonesboro police brought in a negotiator real quickly and brought everything to a peaceful conclusion.

cheapdate

(3,811 posts)

5. Always hard to tell.

Reply to LiberalArkie (Reply #4)

Thu Dec 10, 2015, 06:30 PM

Dec 2015

Still, a lot of evidence points to the asshole theory, IMHO.

LiberalArkie

(15,716 posts)

6. Well we do have a lot of those in Arkansas for sure.

Reply to cheapdate (Reply #5)

Thu Dec 10, 2015, 06:39 PM

Dec 2015

cheapdate

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7. I'm your neighbor from Tennessee. They sprout like mushrooms here also. n/t

Reply to LiberalArkie (Reply #6)

Thu Dec 10, 2015, 06:42 PM

Dec 2015

LiberalArkie

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8. Update: Brad Bartelt

Reply to LiberalArkie (Original post)

Thu Dec 10, 2015, 07:59 PM

Dec 2015

JONESBORO, Ark. (KTHV) – An active shooter alert was in effect at Arkansas State University Thursday, according to campus police. The alleged gunman is now in custody.

Here's a look at the information we know now:

- A tweet shared by the university just after 1:30 p.m. read, "Report of an active shooter spotted at the student union. Everyone should evacuate to the west side of the building and clear the area."

- The Associated Press reports an armed man drove onto campus in a pickup truck outside the student union Thursday afternoon.

- Police quickly surrounded him, and by 2:48 p.m., Jonesboro police said the man, Brad Bartelt, 47, was in custody. The Craighead County Sheriff's Office's inmate roster lists Bartelt as being charged with aggravated assault.

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