Threats To 'Shoot Everyone' At Pa School Club Leads To Arrest

HELLERTOWN, PA — Terroristic threat charges have been filed against a North Carolina man in connection threats made to a Pennsylvania school after it approved an "After School Satan" club.

Northampton County District Attorney Terry Houck said Ceu Uk, 20, of Charlotte, North Carolina, is charged with terroristic threats for leaving a threatening voicemail to the Suacon Valley Middle School in Hellertown.

The threats were found on Feb. 21.

Authorities said a man who left the voicemail said they were going to "come in there and shoot everybody."

The message also "expressed displeasure with Saucon Valley Middle School for allowing the After School Satan Club to utilize the school facilities," the DA's office said.

District officials closed all schools the next day out of caution.

Investigators obtained the phone number associated with the voicemail and determined it was tied to a cell phone in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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Charlotte authorities found the account holder at her home.

There, the account holder's brother, "Van," was upset police were at the home.

The DA's office said "Van" is a name used by Ceu Uk, and "Van" is the only person who uses the cellphone with the number that left the voicemail, a family member told authorities.

Uk denied leaving the message, but eventually confessed to do doing so, the DA's office said.

He claimed the After School Satan Club was trying to turn kids into devils, and he found out about it on Facebook.

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The After School Satan club is an arm of the Satanic Temple — a 501(c)3 non-profit religious organization in the United States — and focuses on science and art activities that are in line with the temple's views, but does not outright teach Satanism.

After School Satan clubs mostly operate in school districts that also have the Christian-based Good News Club.

Uk told authorities he "didn't mean it," but later threatened to beat police if they came to his home again, the DA's office said.

He was taken into custody and held on $75,000 bail.

Uk is awaiting extradition to Pennsylvania.

"Given the nature of this alleged crime and the effect it has on our school communities, I would like to thank the Lower Saucon Township police department, and Detective Eric Marth, for their immediate and all-in response in bringing this investigation to a swift conclusion," Houck said. "Their efforts display the seriousness in which they took this complaint. Thank you also to the Charlotte Mecklenburg police department for their assistance in this matter."

According to WFMZ, the club's approval was rescinded several days after the threats.