NC University Student Arrested For Planning Mass Shooting

By Tom Knighton

Mass shootings tend to happen in clusters. There’s a long-ish lull, then WHAM! A handful of mass shootings in a fairly short period of time. Few of the clusters are as tightly packed as Gilroy, El Paso, and Dayton, though.

However, it could have been worse. Since then, the authorities have made several arrests of people allegedly planning mass shootings.

Earlier this week, they tallied one more.

A High Point University student found with guns in his dorm room planned to shoot up the school in the coming months, according to court documents.

Paul Steber, 19, a freshman from Boston, was arrested Tuesday after officers found guns in his dorm room.

Steber was taken into custody and charged with two felony counts of weapons on campus or other educational property. After he was questioned, Steber was charged with communicating a threat of mass violence on educational property, also a felony.

Details came out at Steber’s first court appearance on Wednesday.

During an investigation, officials found that Steber had planned to ‘do something’ by Christmas and came to North Carolina because it was ‘easier to get guns.’

Lori Wickline, an Assitant District Attorney with the Guilford County DA’s office, said Steber watched videos …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms