UPDATE: Troubling accusations against man arrested with gun on UK campus

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ) – Court documents outline a disturbing picture of the threats made against a University of Kentucky student.

University of Kentucky police arrested 23-year-old Diontre Davis after they say he walked into Buell Armory on campus and an employee spotted him reaching for a handgun in his pants.

Davis, who lives in Texas, is not a student but a UK student did file a complaint about harassing social media posts from Davis last spring, according to police.

Davis’ arrest citation says investigators in Lexington were forwarded a series of screenshots from a cell phone that were Twitter messages, threatening the UK student.

Police contacted Twitter, who agreed to release IP information because of the threat of “danger or serious physical injury to a person.”

Police were able to track the IP address used to post the threats to Fort Worth, Texas and say it was Diontre Davis who was sending the messages.

According to the arrest citation, among the threats posted on Twitter:

“I’m gonna break her jaws & bust kneecaps. Then burn her alive, all while laughing at her pain like she did me.”

“I don’t care if I burn in hell. Shoot it out with the police. & you put this screenshot in the news. She still gone die.”

“She deserves to die a slow & painful death #forrealthistime,” I’ve got so much built anger; I could take off today.”

Court documents say police contacted Davis by phone in October 2016 and he told them was supposed to meet up with the victim when he was in Lexington. Something came up, and he had to cancel, and that’s when he says the victim got mad at him and her friends began following him in Lexington and out of the state.

Court documents go on to say Davis admitted to posting the messages but that he had no plans to kill anyone.

Investigators also contacted the University of Kentucky Air Force ROTC program after another tweet.

According to documents, Davis allegedly tagged two friends of the victim saying: “if (they) gets in the way or any weak *** non shooting air force ****** *** ROTC ***** redneck wants it I got 225 7.62’s.” Police say it was referring to a type of rifle ammunition. Documents say because the victim had blocked Davis, he tagged her friends to make sure she would see the tweets.

After being made aware of the tweet, documents say UK ROTC planned to cancel events on campus that involved their cadets wearing uniforms. Leaders were concerned the cadets could be in danger if Davis came to Lexington to attack the victim.

Documents say Davis also tweeted “better research Ulysses S Davis Lexington Ky! ***** i’m not bull******* with the gunplay.”

Ulysses S. Davis is Davis’s uncle who was arrested in 1986 for firing a rifle at people on the UK campus. Investigators said Ulysses S. Davis was upset after being fired from the university.

Investigators say when they spoke to Davis’ father, Dion Davis, he referred to Ulysses Davis, his brother, as the “UK Sniper.”

They also say when they spoke to Dion Davis previously about the Twitter messages, Dion Davis says he took his son’s cell phone away, and the victim stopped getting threatening tweets.

Davis is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday afternoon in Lexington on charges of terroristic threatening, disorderly conduct, carrying a concealed weapon and criminal trespass.

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