CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WAND) - A man is facing charges after police said he sent hundreds of e-mails threatening to commit a mass shooting in Champaign.
Michael Miller, 54, of Savoy, will be arraigned Tuesday on one count of Making a Terrorist Threat, a class X felony punishable by six to 30 years in prison.
The charge alleges that he threatened to commit a terroristic act, in that he made threats related to an upcoming mass shooting at First and Green Streets, in Champaign.
The charge was filed following a Champaign Police Department investigation into hundreds of emails sent by Miller to Mayor Deb Feinen, over the course of several months.
On July 24, police said Miller sent a series of emails that suggested a mass shooting would occur at the intersection of First and Green Streets and referenced “a handful of folk I would personally want to murder.”
The emails contained phrases such as “even when I die I’ll know as I’m passing that you folk are being erased and all will be erased,” and “when I say I am going to something I always carry through,” and referenced having three people on his “murder list.”
Miller was arrested on a warrant issued by Judge Roger Webber Monday.
Bond was set at $1,000,000.
During a search of Miller’s home, officers said they found three ghost gun kits and materials used to make 9mm ammunition.
In Sept. 2023, Miller was placed into the custody of Illinois Department of Human Services.
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