WATERLOO, Ont. – British police have arrested a man in the United Kingdom who’s accused of making an online threat that led to a campus lockdown at Wilfrid Laurier University.
Detectives from the Metropolitan Police Service arrested a 22-year-old man in Tottenham Hale, a borough in northern London, on suspicion of “malicious communication.”
A Scotland Yard spokesperson told Global News that the man has not yet been charged, and his name won’t be released until such time.
Wilfrid Laurier placed its Waterloo campus on lockdown Friday after receiving a “very generalized threat,” according to school spokesman Kevin Crowley.
The source of the threat was linked to the website 4chan, and used “similar verbiage” to a threat posted before the a shooting earlier this month at an Oregon college that left 10 people, including the shooter, dead.
A photo shared on Twitter showed a post that featured an image of a frog holding a gun and read: “Don’t go to laurier science building hall tomorrow. happening thread will be posted in the morning.”
A post that preceded the Oregon shooting read: “Don’t go to school if you are in the northwest. happening thread will be posted tomorrow morning.”
London’s Metropolitan police participated in a multi-agency investigation that also included the RCMP and FBI.
With files from The Canadian Press.
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