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LiberalArkie

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Fri Dec 11, 2015, 01:21 PM Dec 2015

Man arrested with gun at Arkansas State made 911 call; police notified about him day before

By Max Brantley



The Associated Press adds details from a Jonesboro police report on the man who drove onto the Arkansas State University campus yesterday and prompted a campus lockdown after saying he might fire a shotgun into a propane tank in his pickup.

The report said that Brad Kenneth Bartelt, 47, a former ASU student, called 911 himself after driving on campus and said he had a gun — a 12-gauge shotgun.

After he was taken into custody, he recounted to officers his unhappiness over something reported yesterday — that he'd been seriously injured in an accident while in commercial driver training at ASU-Newport. He didn't feel he'd been properly compensated for his injuries. Said the police report:

"He stated that he was going to come to the university and shoot other people but he realized that murder would be wrong, so he was going kill himself."


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http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2015/12/11/man-arrested-with-gun-at-arkansas-state-made-911-call
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Man arrested with gun at Arkansas State made 911 call; police notified about him day before (Original Post) LiberalArkie Dec 2015 OP
Another unhinged gun owner WhiteTara Dec 2015 #1
I think it became apparent that he wanted the police to kill him. Another case of mental illness. LiberalArkie Dec 2015 #2
and hopefully will get his gun(s) taken away. nt WhiteTara Dec 2015 #3

LiberalArkie

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2. I think it became apparent that he wanted the police to kill him. Another case of mental illness.
Fri Dec 11, 2015, 01:46 PM
Dec 2015

He did not want anyone other than himself to be hurt. In one of the articles it told that when he pulled into the grass he told a boy that was close to leave. At least now he will get help and medications.

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