The New York man captured on video holding firearms and threatening to use them at Lassiter High School once attended the northeast Cobb school, officials said Wednesday.
Bridger Maxwell Carreau, 21, was arrested about 10:40 a.m. Saturday at his current residence in Elmsford, N.Y., Greenburgh police Lt. Michael D’Alessio said in a statement.
“Numerous Air Soft/Pellet guns were taken into evidence from scene,” D’Alessio said. “The Defendant was held for Arraignment and remanded to the County Jail.”
In the video, which several current and former Lassiter High School students received after it was posted Oct. 9 on Facebook, Carreau could be seen with a large knife, hand gun, and long gun, according to a Cobb warrant.
“Ladies and Gentlemen, in honor of my return I give you a Bridgerama Classic performed by yours truly,” Carreau announced in text above the video. “Share it with all the Lassiter goons out there. There’s plenty of me to go around.”
Authorities said Carreau, dressed in a tactical vest, threatened to “go full deer hunter on your (expletive). One shot and everything. That’s what I’m talking about October 22 to 27th.”
Students alerted school administrators of the threat, said Angela Huff, the chief of staff for the Cobb County School District. Officials immediately contacted law enforcement, who in turn contacted authorities in New York, she said.
“Students are our eyes and ears,” Huff said in an email to The AJC. “It is vital that they report potential security threats, including information they may see online, to authorities. In this case, that happened and the matter was referred to police and handled quickly.”
Principal Chris Richie, Huff said, sent a message Monday to all Lassiter parents explaining the situation. Huff would not discuss what, if any, safety measures were implemented at the school in the wake of the threat.
Carreau is awaiting extradition to Cobb County, where he faces a charge of terroristic threats, a felony.
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