Georgia Student Denied Bond After Threatening Talk
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ATHENS, Ga. — A judge denied bond yesterday for a University of Georgia graduate student who frightened classmates and a professor with his talk about guns and was armed when police came to take him for a mental evaluation.
“I do believe, under the circumstances, especially since the University of Georgia graduation is coming up this weekend, it would not be appropriate, for community purposes, to allow bond,” Athens-Clarke County Magistrate Court Judge Ethelyn Simpson said.
Brandon Ginyard, 27, had told an administrator during an April 30 meeting at the university’s business school: “Graduation doesn’t matter. I will either be in jail or dead by May 11,” according to police.
His statement came just two weeks after a mentally disturbed student killed 32 others and himself on the campus of Virginia Tech University.
The administrator reported the encounter to UGA police and also told officers several students had voiced concerns about Mr. Ginyard’s page on the Facebook Web site, which included photos of him shooting an AK–47 assault rifle at a firing range.
