PBSO: Palm Beach State College student threatened to commit mass shooting
A Palm Beach State College student has been arrested on a charge of threatening online to commit a mass shooting.
Authorities say Saul Allain Jean, 24, of North Miami Beach, made threats on the website Change.org to kill people and encouraged others to carry out similar attacks.
“Leave me [expletive] alone or else I will commit mass (expletive) massacre and then kill myself,” he wrote in one comment on the website Thursday, according to an arrest report.
In another comment he advised “all the future terrorists/school shooters” that “your targets should be people at the beach,” and encouraged people to “target” Gov. Ron DeSantis, records show.
Detectives say he also posted that he had “enough to buy a gun” and asked, “who selling an AR-15 (rifle)?”
College administrators were alerted to his posts and contacted the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday.
A college security officer told a sheriff’s detective that Jean was enrolled in classes on the college’s Boca Raton and Lake Worth Beach campuses, and that he had been on the premises as recently as Tuesday, the report stated.
After reviewing the online comments, detectives moved Thursday to arrest Jean on a charge of making written threats to kill or do bodily harm. They also filed a request for a court order to seize any firearms Jean may have and temporarily bar him from buying firearms, court records show.
Jean was booked into the Palm Beach County Jail on Friday, where he was being held Sunday on $1 million bail.
Andrew Marra is a reporter at The Palm Beach Post. To support our journalism, please consider subscribing.
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