20-year-old arrested after making threat to shoot people in Northern Pennsylvania school

Tuesday, February 27, 2018
LUZERNE COUNTY, Pa. (WPVI) -- A 20-year-old is facing charges after police say he threatened to shoot people at his school in Northern Pennsylvania.

Police arrested Austin Lehman yesterday after they got a tip from another student, who said Lehman was planning on shooting people at Keystone Job Corps in Luzerne County.
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According to court documents, Lehman texted the female student and told her he "idolizes serial killers," and other text messages mentioned a hit list.

After getting those texts the student contacted the director of school security, who then got a hold of police.

Lehman says he didn't want to hurt anyone.

He is charged with making terroristic threats.
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