GRAND RAPIDS, MI - A former Michigan Technological University student has settled his lawsuit against the school over an alleged internet threat against blacks.

Details of the settlement were not released.

Matthew Schultz's Nov. 12, 2015, online post triggered an uproar at the Upper Peninsula school.

"Gonna shoot all black people......A smile tomorrow," he wrote, in a post on Yik Yak, a social-media app.

It was followed by a smiley-face emoji.

The post came down within five minutes, but another former student, who took a screen shot and altered it to say only, "Gonna shoot all black people," sent it to the university.

Schultz said he provided the school with his original post but said school officials ignored it to show a tough stance on racial issues.

He was kicked out of school and arrested.

"This case tells a troubling tale that even after MTU realized Plaintiff's social media post was significantly altered, they refused to back down, and perpetuated false public information for their own purposes. It calls into mind the political saw: 'It's not the crime, it's the cover-up,'" attorneys Steve Pence and Nicholas Roumel wrote.

The university said it took an appropriate response given school shootings reported across the country.

"Given the horrific instances of gun violence that have occurred on university campuses across the country in recent years, the intense reaction that (Schultz's) post provoked is not surprising," the school's attorney, Michael Cavanaugh, wrote in court documents.

"Indeed, reasonable recipients of the post viewed Plaintiff's message as making two distinct statements: 'Gonna shoot all black people' and that the anonymous poster would have "A smile tomorrow' (perhaps after shooting black people today)," Cavanaugh wrote.

Schultz was a third-year mechanical-engineering student at Michigan Tech.

He said the school provided information that he was responsible for the altered post.

"Throughout the coming days, MTU officials continued to fan the flames of racial conflict, always using Matthew as a poster boy for white hatred ... ," Pence wrote.

Criminal charges against him were ultimately dropped.

The agreement to settle, filed Tuesday, June 13, awaits the approval of U.S. District Judge Gordon Quist.