UPDATE: Man with gun who prompted ASU lockdown now in custody

[LiberalArkie]

By Max Brantley

UPDATE: After roughly 90 minutes of tension, KAIT-TV in Jonesboro reported shortly before 3 p.m. that an armed man that put the Arkansas State University campus in lockdown had been taken into custody. There have no reports of shots fired. A bomb squad will check the man's truck, which police surrounded shortly after he drove onto the center of campus and was seen holding what appeared to be a shotgun. The sheriff said no shots were fired and no one was hurt.

This is what we reported earlier:

The official Arkansas State University Twitter account at 1:35 p.m. posted this message:

Report of an active shooter spotted at the student union. Everyone should evacuate to the west side of the building and clear the area.

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[LiberalArkie]

1. This is the gentleman being taken into custody.

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This is the the mans facebook post from yesterday:

[upaloopa]

3. I think he wanted suicide by cop

He will go to a mental health evaluation now.

If he were Black he would have died

[cheapdate]

2. I'm skeptical that his problems stem from the people around him

being uncooperative. My working theory will be that his problems stem from him being an asshole. I could be proven wrong.

[LiberalArkie]

4. From what I read he had an accident and tried and failed to get SSDI.

And then looked like he was hoping for suicide by cop but the Jonesboro police brought in a negotiator real quickly and brought everything to a peaceful conclusion.

[cheapdate]

5. Always hard to tell.

Still, a lot of evidence points to the asshole theory, IMHO.

[LiberalArkie]

6. Well we do have a lot of those in Arkansas for sure.

[cheapdate]

7. I'm your neighbor from Tennessee. They sprout like mushrooms here also. n/t

[LiberalArkie]

8. Update: Brad Bartelt

JONESBORO, Ark. (KTHV) – An active shooter alert was in effect at Arkansas State University Thursday, according to campus police. The alleged gunman is now in custody.

Here's a look at the information we know now:

- A tweet shared by the university just after 1:30 p.m. read, "Report of an active shooter spotted at the student union. Everyone should evacuate to the west side of the building and clear the area."

- The Associated Press reports an armed man drove onto campus in a pickup truck outside the student union Thursday afternoon.

- Police quickly surrounded him, and by 2:48 p.m., Jonesboro police said the man, Brad Bartelt, 47, was in custody. The Craighead County Sheriff's Office's inmate roster lists Bartelt as being charged with aggravated assault.



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