A 21-year-old university student was arrested after discussing a potential school shooting and gun use over a CB radio Tuesday night. Richard Aron Bee was then arrested on charges of terrorizing, according to the affidavit of probable cause.
Bee was sitting on top of the LSU Union Square Parking Garage communicating with truckers over channel 19 of a CB radio. According to the affidavit, Bee “was rambling about ammunition and ‘he was going to do some things.’”
Bee allegedly boasted he was equipped with two high caliber rifles and special ammunition over the radio, according to the affidavit. Bee allegedly said, though he didn’t have his binoculars, he could still see trucks on the bridge, leading the listener to believe Bee was looking through a rifle scope.
“The way he was talking he is going to set off ammunition nitrate at the Louis Dreyfus,” the caller reported after hearing Bee over the radio. The Louis Dreyfus Holding Co. is a facility in the Port of Baton Rouge containing a high amount of the substance, according to the affidavit.
The facility was shut down briefly after the incident, according to the affidavit.
Shortly after the call, LSUPD officers found Bee, dressed in camouflage on the top floor of the garage with long wires wrapped around him, according to the affidavit. Bee later told officers that his conversation over CB radio touched on the recent shooting at Umpqua Community College in Oregon.
He admitted that he described how he would shoot a potential LSU campus shooter, but denied making any threatening statements, according to the affidavit.
LSUPD was contacted about Bee on Sept. 24 for printing targets for firearm practice in the LSU Student Union, according to the affidavit.
A Facebook post from Bee on Feb. 14 of last year contained an alarming paragraph with a link to a Wikipedia article on Chicago’s 1929 Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre.
“Valentines may be a day a love to most, however, we should also know this day of love has a dark side as well,” Bee wrote, “and the only way you were probably happy in Chicago 85 years ago, on this very day, is if you were one of Capone’s men mowing down seven people in a Chicago warehouse…”