UPDATE: MTSU Freshman still behind bars - court 11/25

October 14, 2008

It was just last week when MTSU freshman Justin Jay Davis was arrested and charged with one count of terrorism and three counts of arson in connection with a series of incidents at MTSU. You may recall, university officials cancelled classes Thursday afternoon and Friday last week after several individuals on campus received threatening e-mails. Reports of small fires on campus also heightened university officials’ concerns. MTSU Public Safety Director Buddy Peaster says classes were cancelled for Thursday afternoon and Friday, but the campus was not evacuated.

Peaster says the e-mail promised “large-scale devastation or destruction” if classes were not cancelled. Local and state law enforcement agencies were brought in to help with the investigation. MTSU authorities told WSMV in Nashville that they had received a call from the students mother about 3-weeks ago. The conversation was evidently in regards to the mothers concern about her son. She told police that she had not heard from her son in a number of days.

Davis had been brought to the police department initially as a possible witness. He was later developed as the main suspect. Today, the 19-year old is being held in the Rutherford County jail on 500-thousand-dollars bail. We have learned that Davis will make his first court appearance during a hearing on November the 25th.

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