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Federal authorities say an unemployed amusement park worker in Bethlehem, Pa., threatened to carry out a school shooting.
According the Associated Press, the FBI says Anthony Elonis made that threat and others on Facebook after he was fired from Dorney Park and Wildwood Kingdom in October.
Authorities say Elonis posted a threat Nov. 16 that said there are “Enough elementary schools in a 10-mile radius to initiate the most heinous school shooting ever imagined.”
It continued: “And hell hath no fury like a crazy man in a Kindergarten class.”
Elonis was charged Thursday with interstate communication of threats. He is in federal custody pending a bail hearing on Monday.
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