GRANITE CITY, Ill. — A man was charged Friday with making terroristic threats toward Granite City High School and First Student Bus Company earlier in the week.
Richard K. Schneidewind, 41, was charged with three counts of making a terroristic threat and one count of cyberstalking.
The Granite City Police Department said it was notified Tuesday that threats against the school and company were posted to Facebook. Investigators learned Schneidewind had created a Facebook page using another person's name, which he used to make the posts.
Police said Schneidewind's threatened in his posts to have someone place a bomb at the high school, threatened to have someone bring an AR-15 to the school and open fire, and threatened to have someone shoot a bus driver.
Schneidewind remained in custody Friday.
