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A member of the Fresno State football team has been arrested in connection with athreatening social media post that placedthe campus on lockdown Monday afternoon.Christian Malik Pryor, an 18-year-old freshman wide receiver for the Bulldogs, was taken into custody and booked bytheFresno County Sheriffs Department at 1:53 p.m. PT (4:53 p.m
Bill Lee Jersey . ET) Monday, .MORE: "Criminal threat" waslisted as the reason for Pryor'sarrest.He is being heldon $20,000 bond.Campus police arrested Pryorhours after an anonymous
Jim Rice Jersey post was made on the social app Yik Yak that said the sender planned torelease my frustrations with gunfire on campus. The postpromised an attack around 3 p.m. PT and included a photo ofFresno State'sHenry Madden Library, .Per the Bee, the post readin full: the time is here. @3PM I will release my frustrations. Tired of dirty looks
Bobby Doerr Jersey , get rejected, nd being talked about bc how I dre s. My choice of weapon M4 Carbine...Campus police and school officialsdeclined to identifyPryor as the suspect, confirming only that the threat was made by a Fresno State student. The arrest was announcedduring an afternoon news conference on campus.Police said they were
David Ortiz Jersey able to trace the threat to an IP addre s of the suspect, who is believed to have acted alone.Fresno State at 2:28 p.m. PT (5:28 p.m. ET) thatan arrest had been made and that thecampuswide lockdown that went into effect two hours earlier had been lifted.According to an update Monday, the suspect was still being questioned by police. said thesuspect had beenin the office of Fresno State football coachTim DeRuyter at the time he was detained. School officials
Mookie Betts Jersey declined to specifywhere the arrest took place, saying only that it was on campus.Pryor, a non-scholarship walk-on player,has not appeared in a game for the Bulldogs this season.