After reportedly throwing a rock into a daycare center with hate speech inscribed on it, a guy from North Carolina was detained late Monday. According to authorities, this incident is related to the shooting of a park ranger days earlier.
Tyson Lee Corpening, 36, is charged with seven offenses, including attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, intimidation of an ethnic group, and threatening widespread harm in a place of learning. Corpening was apprehended with the help of the FBI and a SWAT unit.
It was not immediately known if he has a lawyer. He was being held at the Mecklenburg County Jail.
Around 8:40 on Monday morning, according to police, a report that a rock had been thrown through the glass of the Marizetta Kerry Child Development Center in Charlotte and that it had been accompanied by “a note containing hate speech and other threats regarding children” was made. The incident was not reported to have caused any injuries, and the threat’s specifics are still unknown.
The assault is allegedly related to the shooting of a park ranger last week at the Friendship Sportsplex, according to police, who quickly enlisted the help of the FBI in the investigation. The park ranger suffered non-life-threatening injuries in the incident on November 27 while he was closing the sportsplex, which happened close to the daycare.
The “totality of the facts,” according to police, rather than explaining how the two incidents are connected.
According to Charlotte-Mecklenburg Maj. Melanie Peacock, “The first incidence that happened we assumed was probably a single incident because this kind of incident is not usual.”
