Police have arrested a second suspect for allegedly making online threats directed toward black faculty and students at the University of Missouri. Northwest Missouri State student Connor Stottlemyre, 19, was reportedly taken into custody on Wednesday afternoon under charges of allegedly making the following "terrorist threat" on the anonymous messaging app YikYak: "I'm going to shoot any black people tomorrow, so be ready," Gawker reports.
Stottlemyre is the second person to be arrested for making race-related threats directed at the University of Missouri. On Wednesday morning, police arrested 19-year-old Hunter Park, a student at Missouri University. Both arrests come shortly after the university system's president and chancellor resigned in the face of mounting student protests over how the administration has responded to race-related incidents.
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