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Former police officer arrested for allegedly planning mass shooting at New Orleans festival
Deputies recovered a handgun and about 200 rounds of ammunition from his hotel room, and he is held pending extradition to Louisiana.
- Christopher Gillum of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, was arrested Wednesday evening at a Destin, Florida, hotel for allegedly planning a mass shooting at a Louisiana festival.
- Federal authorities alerted the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office that Gillum was traveling to Louisiana to conduct a mass shooting, prompting deputies to track him using the county's Flock camera system.
- Deputies recovered a handgun and about 200 rounds of ammunition from the hotel room, and Gillum faces charges in Orleans Parish for making "terroristic threats."
- Gillum remains in the Okaloosa County Jail pending extradition to Louisiana as the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival began Thursday, though authorities have not identified the alleged target.
- Sheriff Eric Aden credited the arrest to interagency partnerships and surveillance technology, though officials have not released details about a potential motive or the suspect's planning timeline.
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The Independent (US)Former cop arrested for plotting mass shooting at New Orleans festival, police say
Gillum’s family reported him missing on Tuesday and told law enforcement he had a gun and ‘expressed recent threats to harm Black people’
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A former police officer was arrested on Wednesday in Florida after authorities found information suggesting that he was planning a mass shooting at a New Orleans festival, according to the Okaloosa County sheriff’s office. Christopher Gillum, from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, was wanted in the parish of Orleans for a charge of terrorist threats. “The authorities got information that Gillum was planning to travel to a New Orleans festival to cond…
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