Giacomo Bologna

GBOLOGNA@NEWS-LEADER.COM

A 60-year-old Springfield man — who police say has a history of anti-police and racist remarks — was arrested Sunday after he had an altercation with Greene County Sheriff's deputies at his front door and told them he had guns inside, court documents said.

An investigation began Saturday after two messages were left on Greene County's Facebook page.

According to court documents, Christopher Lynn Schuler posted two threatening messages about Greene County officials, prompting a deputy to look into past records about Schuler.

Court documents said the deputy found reports of Schuler repeatedly calling 911, threatening the lives of the call takers and police officers and making racist remarks about white people and white police officers.

These reports were described in a probable cause statement filed by a deputy.

According to the statement, two deputies and a female social worker from the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services went over to Schuler's residence Sunday.

The 60-year-old man spoke through the screen door about police shootings, telling the deputies he owned many guns and had problems with the sheriff's office and a Greene County judge, the statement said.

When the social worker approached the home, the statement said Schuler told her she was pretty and invited her inside. The social worker declined Schuler's invitation to enter the residence, saying she wouldn't enter without the deputies, the statement said.

According to the statement, Schuler eventually said the deputies could enter, too, but the moment the social worker crossed his home's threshold, he blocked the doorway with his body, refusing to let the deputies enter or the social worker leave.

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The deputies then arrested Schuler — who resisted — and took him to the Greene County Jail, where he was then transported to a hospital, the statement said.

At one point, Schuler tried to kick a deputy's gun out of his holster, the statement said, and told the deputy he was going to sexually assault the deputy's wife and daughter.

According to the statement, Schuler was also combative at the hospital, where he said he would kill everyone when his handcuffs were taken off and then continually made racial slurs against white people and threatened to harm police officers, medical staff, and security officers.

Schuler has been charged with attempting to disarm an officer of the peace, false imprisonment, and resisting arrest, according to online court records.

He is being held on a $50,000 bond, online court records show.

A bail recommendation from the prosecutor's office said that Schuler "appears to suffer from a mental disease or defect and his escalating behavior presents a significant threat to our community and law enforcement."

According to court records, Schuler has been convicted of misusing 911 and driving while intoxicated, and he is currently facing charges of sexual abuse in the second degree.

The two Facebook messages posted by Schuler that caught the attention of law enforcement allegedly read: "I would be unsettled if all officials. Of Greene County never breathed another breath" and " There is now someone who will call you 'law enforcement officers' to task. I will pay a bounty."

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