{"id":243595,"date":"2026-04-23T18:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T18:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/243595\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T18:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T18:25:07","slug":"florida-deputies-nab-former-officer-over-alleged-new-orleans-festival-mass-shooting-threat-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/243595\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida deputies nab former officer over alleged New Orleans festival mass shooting threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DESTIN, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A former North Carolina police officer wanted for allegedly threatening a mass shooting at a New Orleans festival has been arrested in Florida. <\/p>\n<p>The Okaloosa County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said that Christopher Gillum, a resident of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, was taken into custody on Wednesday evening while staying at a hotel in Destin.<\/p>\n<p>Gillum was sought by the New Orleans Department of Public Safety for making terroristic threats. Authorities believe he intended to attend a festival in New Orleans with plans to carry out a mass shooting.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/florida-camp-counselor-accused-of-trying-to-buy-child-porn-with-bitcoin-linked-wallet-attorney-general-james-uthmeier-national-center-for-missing-and-exploited-children-florida-department-of-law-enforcement-florida-department-of-law-enforcement-cash-app\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Florida camp counselor accused of trying to buy child porn with Bitcoin-linked wallet<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While officials did say which festival was targeted, the New Orleans Jazz &amp; Heritage Festival, also known as Jazz Fest, is currently underway and runs through May 3. <\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement officials reported that they were alerted to Gillum\u2019s presence through the county&#8217;s Flock camera system, which helped them locate him.  During the arrest, deputies said they found a handgun and about 200 rounds of ammunition in Gillum&#8217;s hotel room.<\/p>\n<p>Okaloosa County Sheriff&#8217;s Office deputies said that they apprehended him without incident at around 6:40 p.m. on Aprli 22.<\/p>\n<p> He is currently being held at the Okaloosa County jail, awaiting extradition back to Louisiana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DESTIN, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A former North Carolina police officer wanted for allegedly threatening a mass shooting at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-243595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}