“5 likes and I’ll go shoot up Disney and hang myself,” Derek Eitel reportedly wrote in the group chat.
According to the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office, Eitel was in a group chat with more than 800 members when he posted the threat. As a result, two of the group’s members reported him to authorities.
Eitel later confessed to sending the threat when questioned by officials and was arrested on a charge of making written threats to kill or do bodily harm.
He is being held at the Brevard County Jail.
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This article appears in Jun 13-19, 2018.