Suspect accused of terrorist HCC threat

Fake name used on social media posts, authorities say

A Houston man is charged with making a terroristic threat after allegedly posting on Facebook that he intended to "shoot everyone and kill everyone" at a Houston Community College campus, officials say.

A Houston man was charged Thursday with making a terroristic threat after allegedly posting on Facebook that he intended to “shoot everyone and kill everyone” at a Houston Community College campus, the Harris County District Attorney’s Office said.

Luis Antonio Rivera, 21, allegedly used a fake name to make the online threat on Monday about causing casualties at HCC’s Central Campus, prosecutors said in a news release. Making a terroristic threat is a third-degree felony that carries a penalty of two to 10 years in prison if convicted.

The district attorney’s office alleged that Rivera, using the name Elijah Eli Saltibanez, posted on Facebook that he would “attack and shoot everyone and kill everyone in hcc Central campus in May 7 2018 I will kill everyone including students and teachers are gonna die and also I will kill the hcc police department.”

Public records list a man with the same name, and birth month and year who was enrolled at

Houston Community College this year. An HCC spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment Thursday evening. Circumstances of Rivera’s arrest were not immediately available.

Other threats were also allegedly made against President Donald Trump and local school districts, the DA’s office said.

“We take threats to public safety seriously,” First Assistant Harris County District Attorney Tom Berg said. “If the elements are met, you will be charged and prosecuted.”

The FBI assisted with the investigation.

HCC shut down the campus on Monday and Tuesday while the threat was investigated but reopened it Wednesday after saying a “person of interest” had been identified and located in the case and that charges were pending.

The post came amid an uptick in threats made toward schools across the nation, particularly in the wake of the mass shooting in Parkland, Fla., that killed 17 students and adults at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in February.

Such threats surged by 300 percent in the month after the Parkland shooting, according to the Educator’s School Safety Network, which tracks shooting threats.

More than 45 percent of those threats came from social media, the ESSN reported.