MUKILTEO — A recent Kamiak High School graduate who allegedly posted a Facebook threat that he was planning to massacre students at school told police he didn’t mean to alarm anyone.
Stafford Sol Han, 18, told detectives he “just thought his friends would think it was funny,” according to a police affidavit filed Friday in Everett District Court.
Police learned Thursday morning that Han, who graduated from Kamiak in 2008, wrote “im pulling a Virginia tech on kamiak,” an apparent reference to the April 2007 shooting at Virginia Tech that killed 32 people.
“There are some things that just aren’t funny,” Mukilteo School District spokesman Andy Muntz said. “With the history of Columbine and other events, including Virginia Tech, things like this are always taken seriously.”
The school was placed in a modified lockdown Thursday as police investigated.
“When we did the threat assessment, we didn’t have specific information as to when or exactly where it was going to occur or how,” Mukilteo Police Cmdr. Chuck Macklin said. “We’re going to take any threat against our kids seriously and we did.”
Around 20 officers from three different agencies worked throughout the day Thursday to gather information.
Han was arrested at a Lynnwood residence.
Detectives obtained search warrants for two homes and seized a computer, Macklin said. No weapons were found.
Prior to being arrested, police believe Han deleted the original message from the online social media site and posted a new message: “I DIDN’T SAY I’M KILLING ANYONE … ITS NOT MEEEEEEEEE.”
After being arrested, Han allegedly confessed to posting the threat, police said.
He was booked into the Snohomish County Jail for investigation of threats to bomb or injure property. A judge Friday ordered him released to his mother.
Reporter Jackson Holtz: 425-339-3437, jholtz@heraldnet.com.
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