A&M student charged in terroristic knife threat

A 20-year-old Texas A&M junior posted bail after being arrested on charges of making a terroristic threat against a fellow student.

The junior is accused of telling a freshman student that he was going to cut the flesh from his face and eat it, according to Texas A&M University police.

The freshman, a business administration major, apparently had drawn the ire of the older student by talking of his desire to become an Aggie yell leader.

The younger student told officers the junior entered his dorm room unannounced and after hours, turned off the main light, turned on the light over the sink, and started throwing a knife into a wood panel, according to a police affidavit.

The older student then ran the blade across the freshman's face, police said.

He allegedly also told the freshman that if he heard him talking about becoming a yell leader in the future "you don't want to know what's going to happen."

Police said they've been working on the case since Jan. 23, when the younger student first reported that he had been threatened.

Making a terroristic threat is a Class B misdemeanor punishable by up to 180 days in jail and a $2,000 fine.

The junior was released on $2,000 bail from the Brazos County Jail on Thursday, the same day of his arrest.

It wasn't immediately clear in which dorm the incident took place or whether the two knew each other.

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