UM-Rolla Student Update 2

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The student newspaper at UM-Rolla has much more information on the student charged with making terrorist threats: Distraught graduate student brings chaos to campus. (Hat tip: Baikal.)

Campus was thrown into chaos on Tuesday when Sujihkumar (Sujih) Venkatramolla, 22, a second semester international graduate student in geotechnical engineering under Dr. Ronaldo Luna, claimed to have a bomb and anthrax in the Civil Engineering building at approximately 2:32 a.m.

The incident began shortly after midnight when Venkatramolla asked roommate Satya Putta to drop him off at the Civil Engineering Building on campus. Once there, Venkatramolla prepared a multiple-page document in which he allegedly described an intricate plan for the destruction of multiple buildings on campus. A call was then made to the police to report an incident at the building. Whether or not the call was made by Venkatramolla is still under investigation.

UMRPD responded, then called the Rolla Police Department to assist shortly thereafter due to the nature of the threats.

Though Venkatramolla allegedly brandished a knife, police quickly detained him using a taser, then decontaminated and questioned him.

During this time, according to Putta, FBI agents with “large guns” went to their shared residence to search it and the situation was “very tense.” Response teams prepare outside of the decontamination tents located in the parking lot across from the EE building.

Venkatramolla is an international student from a “well respected” family in India, according to Putta, who also pointed out that Venkatramolla’s father died when he was a child.

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