UPDATED on Dec. 23, 2022: The charges listed against Dustin L. Greenawalt in this article were dismissed and expunged at the Butler County Common Pleas Court on Sept. 17, 2021.

BUTLER TWP — A former criminology student is accused of making social media threats last month at Butler County Community College, authorities said.

Dustin L. Greenawalt, 20, of Oakland Township remains free on house arrest following his arraignment Friday on misdemeanor charges of terroristic threats and disorderly conduct.

Campus police said they were notified about 2:25 p.m. Sept. 24 that Greenawalt was posting threats on the social media app Snapchat.

The messages, according to court documents, indicated that he was “intending to initiate an active killer event.”

In the first post, he allegedly said, “I totally understand why people shoot up schools filled with people like (four named individuals) and basically every other person in Butler.”

He also said, “I’d (expletive) watch every child at that school bleed out slowly.”

Police did not identify the four people named by the defendant in the post, but noted that three of them are BC3 students.

Greenawalt, too, was identified in documents as a student.

Investigators later spoke to all of the individuals that he mentioned in the post, documents said, and three of them told police that Greenawalt had previously threatened them with “physical violence” that included “killing them.”

Police said the defendant’s Snapchat post included a picture of the BC3 Field House that indicated he was parked there. Officers went to the Field House and found him seated in a vehicle and on his phone.

While police were with him, Greenawalt made the unsolicited statement, “I did what I did so I would be heard,” according to the police affidavit,

Police said he also made comments about being depressed and angry.

Greenawalt, the next day, was taken to Butler Memorial Hospital for a mental health evaluation, documents said.

District Judge William Fullerton on Friday arraigned him on charges that police filed a day earlier. He was released into pretrial supervision, including house arrest with electronic monitoring.

Additionally, he was ordered to continue mental health treatment and to take medication as prescribed. He is prohibited from the BC3 campus and was ordered to have no contact with any of the individuals he allegedly named in the posts.

William Foley, BC3’s coordinator of news and media content, said Monday that while Greenawalt is not a current student, he was enrolled as a full-time student, majoring in criminology, Aug. 27, the start of the fall semester.

Foley declined to comment when asked if the school took any measures when it first learned of the alleged threats.

But, he said, “the safety and security of our students, faculty, staff and visitors are of the utmost importance.”