Police in Maine arrested a former Walmart employee who made a threatening social media post that referenced a recent mass shooting in the state
. Police in the town of Palmyra charged the 18-year-old man with aggravated reckless conduct and domestic violence terrorizing after he photographed himself with a firearm and ammunition while sitting in the parking lot of his former workplace and alluding to committing “Lewiston part two.” A mass shooting in Lewiston, about 80 miles south, killed 18 people last week.
The teenager made the threat via a social media channel on Sunday, police said. Police said the teen had been fired from the Palmyra Walmart in 2021 and had been recently seen in its parking lot on a nightly basis. They said they later arrested him at his residence in Etna without incident. Police said the teen is due in court on Jan. 3. A phone number listed for him in Etna had been disconnected.
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