KAIT reports that a jury in Jonesboro has found Brad Bartelt guilty of  terroristic threatening in the incident in which he drove last December onto the Arkansas State University campus with a shotgun and threatened to kill himself. The jury acquitted him on five counts of aggravated assault.

The  guilty verdict covered two charges — terroristic threatening in the first degree and making a terroristic threat. Both are felonies with maximum penalties of 6 and 30 years, respectively. The jury set punishment at six and 18 years. Judge Thomas Fowler said the sentences would run concurrently. 

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Bartelt testified during the trial that he intended no harm to others. He said he had intended to commit suicide as a symbol of his unhappiness over ASU’s response to his injury as a student at the ASU-Newport campus. The incident ended with no one hurt, but the campus responded to it as an “active shooter” episode that put the campus in lockdown for a period of time. At one point, Bartelt threatened to shoot a propane tank in his truck.

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