{"id":306125,"date":"2025-10-15T19:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T19:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/306125\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T19:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T19:23:09","slug":"utah-man-arrested-for-allegedly-threatening-to-shoot-utes-football-fans-at-byu-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/306125\/","title":{"rendered":"Utah man arrested for allegedly threatening to shoot Utes football fans at BYU game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 28-year-old man allegedly made threats on the social media platform X.<\/p>\n<p class=\"caption-credit\">(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) LaVell Edwards Stadium, BYU football in Provo on Saturday August 31, 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-raw\">An Emery County man has been arrested for allegedly making threats on social media against Utah fans ahead of the BYU-Utah football game. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-raw\">The 28-year-old man is being held on suspicion of threats of violence and obstruction of justice, a Utah Department of Corrections spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-raw\">People contacted police after an unnamed person posted on the social media platform X made threats about fans at this weekend\u2019s football game at LaVell Edwards Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-raw\">In one post captured in a screenshot, the person wrote that \u201canyone wearing red on Saturday is getting shot.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-raw\">The same account threatened another fan saying, \u201ccome to [LaVell Edwards Stadium] and enjoy a bullet in your head. Bring your&#8230; kids too.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-raw\">The man is being held in the Emery County jail, the Corrections spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-raw\">The Salt Lake Tribune does not generally name people who have not yet been formally charged with a crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 28-year-old man allegedly made threats on the social media platform X. (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":306126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[3955,13582,17956,17957,1318,1317,1315,1316,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-306125","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-athletics","9":"tag-brigham-young-university","10":"tag-byu","11":"tag-cougars","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-ncaa","14":"tag-ncaa-football","15":"tag-ncaafootball","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115379817993328172","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}