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<\/p>\nDavid Benjamin Coleman-Roush, 35, is facing a third-degree felony charge of terroristic threat after making threats against the UT Austin and a local church.<\/p>\n
AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A man is in jail after allegedly making a threat toward the University of Texas at Austin.<\/p>\n
David Benjamin Coleman-Roush, 35, was arrested in the 5700 block of Tapadera Trace Lane in northwest Austin early Saturday morning.<\/p>\n
According to an affidavit obtained by KVUE, shortly before 11 p.m. Friday, Austin Police Department (APD) officers responded to a welfare check call after a transfer from the suicide prevention hotline. The affidavit states that Coleman-Roush’s friend called the hotline and said that Coleman-Roush talked about “seeing something tomorrow, about UT and a church in Lakeway” while referring to a TV broadcast about a mass casualty event.<\/p>\n
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Roush’s friend also allegedly said that Coleman-Roush wife was leaving him and that that could escalate the delusions he was having. The friend also allegedly stated that Coleman-Roush is former military.<\/p>\n
The affidavit states that APD officers were able to make contact with Coleman-Roush’s wife. She said she had texts from Coleman-Roush where he said he would go to UT on Saturday and follow a plan. APD reviewed the messages from Coleman-Roush’s phone, which stated the he was “going to UT tomorrow and will do it right in the street.”<\/p>\n
Coleman-Roush’s wife also allegedly told police that Coleman-Roush has a kill list and previously threatened to kill a pastor during a previous assault on her. Coleman-Roush’s wife also said she had further concerns because Coleman-Roush possessed a gun in the residence.\u00a0<\/p>\n
APD determined that Coleman-Roush “intentionally threatened to commit the act of mass violence … on or near [the] University of Texas campus,” according to the affidavit.<\/p>\n
Coleman-Roush was charged with third-degree felony terroristic threat to the public. He also faces charges of third-degree felony assault on a family member by impeding breath, misdemeanor terroristic threat of a family\/household, and misdemeanor assault causing bodily injury to family member.<\/p>\n
Coleman-Roush was booked in the Travis County Jail just after 3 a.m. Saturday. He remains in custody on a combined bond of $120,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Benjamin Coleman-Roush, 35, is facing a third-degree felony charge of terroristic threat after making threats against the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-457305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}