We’ve reached out to one of Carter’s lawyers, Chad Van Brunt and Don Flanary, for comment.
Carter, an avid gamer, got into a spat with a fellow League of Legends player on Facebook a few months ago. After being provoked and told he was “messed up in the head,” Carter fired back with a startling comment:
I think Ima shoot up a kindergarten / And watch the blood of the innocent rain down/ And eat the beating heart of one of them.
His father says the messages were followed by “lol” and “jk” to show Justin was joking. But a woman who was startled by the messages notified authorities. Carter was arrested in February and had an initial trial in Texas’ Comal County in April. There, the judge set Carter’s bail sky-high at $500,000 and charged him with making a “terroristic threat.” The third-degree felony could have led to a 10-year jail sentence. Meanwhile, Carter’s father says his son fell into a depression and was beaten up behind bars.