Austin Man Arrested After Threats To Arkansas High School

AUSTIN, TX — An Austin man was arrested after being accused of threatening to kill students at an Arkansas high school, according to a published report.

Patrick Pleasant, 36, was booked into the Travis County Jail Thursday night on a charge of third-degree felony retaliation charge. He was initially jailed more than 500 miles away in Jacksonsville, Arkansas, the Austin American-Statesman reported.

The arrest was sparked after Pleasant got into a fight with his teenage stepson, who allegedly bit him during the encounter which led to a domestic battery charge for Pleasant. The man then contacted Jacksonville police on Aug. 21 demanding the arrest of the boy. By the next month, it's alleged Pleasant sent messages to his former pastor via Facebook expressing a desire to kill the stepson and shooting up his high school, according to the report.

"I'm going to kill all of the kids," he is accused of having written in one of the posts. Police tracked him through his cell phone and located him along the 3300 block of Northeast Drive in Austin. At last check, Pleasant was still at the Travis County Jail with a bail set at $20,000, according to the facility's records.

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