A Florida man was arrested Monday for threatening to kill a member of Tyler Trent's family.

DELTONA, Fla. (WTHR) — A Florida man was arrested Monday for threatening to kill a member of Tyler Trent's family.

Officers with the Volusia County Sheriff's Office arrested 39-year-old John Matthew Pinkham Monday afternoon. He was preliminarily charged with making written threats to kill or do bodily injury, a felony.

Investigators say Pinkham posted on Trent's Facebook page after he passed away last week. Using the alias "Julie Homan," he allegedly threatened violence at a celebration of life event scheduled for Tuesday.

"Funerals coming and I will appear like the reaper," Pinkham wrote, threatening to choke Tyler's mother to death. "I will be talked about forever...this is no idol (sic) threat."

Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood expressed his department's condolences to the Trent family on Facebook, then encouraged the community to join him in donating to the Tyler Trent Cancer Research Endowment at Purdue.

IMPD assisted Volusia County detectives in their investigation.