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Laurier student arrested after shooting threat on social media: police

A Wilfrid Laurier University student was charged after police allege he made threats online. Ahmad Fareed Khan / Global News

A student at Wilfrid Laurier University was arrested over the weekend after allegedly making shooting threats on social media, according to Waterloo Regional Police.

Police say a social media company alerted the RCMP last Thursday that someone had threatened online to go to the Laurier campus and start shooting.

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The Mounties then notified local police, and after an investigation, an 18-year-old man was arrested and charged with uttering threats, police say.

Officers say they do not believe there was a credible threat to public safety.

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