A sadistic counselor allegedly threatened the mass murder of children if they were to ‘p**s him off’ during a summer camp.
Mario Bernal, 23, is accused of telling kids he would ‘create the next Columbine shooting’ at Christian Camp Cho-Yeh in Livingston, Texas.
He allegedly repeated his threats when horrified camp officials planned to fire him, vowing he would ‘clock himself out’ and ‘not go down by himself’.
Bernal again threatened to turn the camp into a repeat of the infamous massacre if the camp ‘came at him legally’, an arrest affidavit alleged.
He was already facing dismissal for locking a group of children in a sweltering hot room as ‘discipline’ and refusing to let the leave.
Two teenage gunmen murdered 12 students and one teacher at Columbine High School in Colorado on April 20, 1999, and wounded 20 others.
Mario Bernal, 23, is accused of telling kids he would ‘create the next Columbine shooting’ at Christian Camp Cho-Yeh in Livingston, Texas
Bernal, from Vernal, Utah, was arrested by Livingston Police and handed over to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, which was investigating him
Columbine is the most notorious school shooting in US history and national trauma that led to increased campus security and renewed gun control efforts.
Bernal, from Vernal, Utah, was arrested by Livingston Police and handed over to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, which was investigating him.
Police pulled him over near the camp entrance after witnesses told them he was planning to flee to Houston with his girlfriend, who also worked for Camp Cho-Yeh.
He was charged with making terroristic threats impeding public service and held at the Polk County Jail on a $50,000 bond.
Bernal was already facing sex crime charges for allegedly forcibly kissing and touching a women in a car despite repeatedly being told to stop.
The case was filed on May 8 after the incident in March.
Police pulled him over near the camp entrance after witnesses told them he was planning to flee to Houston with his girlfriend, who also worked for Camp Cho-Yeh
