tonight 19-year-old high point university freshman paul steeber in police custody gla nobody knows what to think or what s true. people are kind of uncomfortable with it for sure. steeber, a student less than two weeks faces two felony counts of weapons on campus or educational property. and one count of making a threat of mass violence. steeber s attorney did not immediately respond to cnn s request for comment. but according to prosecutors, steeber obtained a semiautomatic handgun and shotgun last week. and ammunition, all discovered by the police in the dorm room tuesday. they say steeber had been planning the ache since december. and actually had begun studying how to kill. watching videos of the charleston mass shootings down into south carolina and other mass shootings. and that he specifically chose the north carolina school as part of his plan, even though he is from boston. he came to north carolina torg to school because it was easier to get guns in north
carolina. than other states. university officials said they were alerted to the potential threats by students. in a message to students high point university said there was no immediate threat and steeber had been removed from campus. the impact of coming forward was the student was removed. and i mean you hate to think about what would happen if nobody said something and he went through whatever he was planning on going through with. this is just the latest thwarted mass shooting attempt. dozens have been arrested over threats to commit mass murder since the the shootings in el paso texas and dayton, ohio. and according to the fbi there was a significant increase in threats in the week after the shootings totalling more than 38,000 threat tips from the public. wolf, steeber has so far been denied bond. it expected in the next week or so he will have to undergo a psychiatric eechlgs. he has been expelled from the school. but to hear the chilling point, many students will select a