Overview

• A man called Waite Park Elementary shortly before 11 a.m. Thursday and threatened to “shoot anything that moves” with an AR-15 rifle.
• Minneapolis officers and a SWAT unit secured the campus during a lockdown and remained until students were safely dismissed.
• Investigators identified a suspect with ties to two people at the school and a residence within two miles of the building.
• License-plate readers showed his vehicle in Missouri, leading to an arrest with help from the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office, ATF agents and federal partners.
• The suspect was booked into the Jackson County Jail and faces possible terroristic-threats charges, with officials acknowledging heightened anxiety after last month’s Annunciation church shooting.