Student who allegedly tweeted campus threats to be arraigned
William Koberna, the Kent State computer science student accused of making tweeted threats against the school, will be arraigned by video at 1:15 p.m. in Judge Mark Fankhauser’s courtroom at the Portage County Municipal Court in Ravenna.
Koberna, 19, a sophomore, was arrested late Sunday afternoon at his parents’ home in Brunswick after allegedly making threats on Twitter to “shoot up” the university.
Kent State University Police charged Koberna with inducing panic and aggravated menacing.
Koberna, a former Kent resident, currently lives in Brunswick, and was taken into custody without incident.
View the university’s press release here.
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