ADAM MURRAY

IRON MOUNTAIN — An Iron Mountain man will be back in court April 25 on terrorism and other charges for reportedly making online threats that he planned “to be a school shooter,” prompting area schools to go into lockdown Tuesday morning.

Adam Murray, 24, was arrested Tuesday morning at his Iron Mountain apartment and arraigned later that day in Dickinson County District Court on charges of terrorism-using the internet/telecommunications to commit, a felony that carries up to 20 years in prison if convicted; computer-using to commit a crime, also a 20-year felony; child sexually abusive activity-distributing or promoting, a seven-year felony; and computers-using to commit a crime, this count a seven-year felony tied to the sex charge.

He remains in Dickinson County Jail on a $1 million cash or surety bond that District Judge Julie LaCost called warranted given the seriousness of the charges, even though Murray’s attorney, Daniel Jaspen, noted his client had no prior criminal record.

“You came out of the gate here with a real whopper, Mr. Murray,” LaCost said during the hearing Murray attended from jail via Zoom.

The criminal complaint states Murray “sent multiple Snapchats of child sexually abusive material through his cellular phone” and also “threats via his cellular phone that he was going to kill his mother and to be a school shooter.”

He could face additional charges in the case, as Dickinson County Chief Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Kristin Kass said in court Tuesday that Iron Mountain police received information Murray had threatened another local school as well.

According to Iron Mountain Police Department, the Green Bay Police Department in Wisconsin advised that a person living in Iron Mountain had made threats online toward schools in general.

Area school administrators ordered a soft lockdown, which keeps students indoors and bars visitors, Tuesday morning as a precautionary measure while law enforcement investigated. The lockdowns, which lasted only about an hour, ended after Murray was taken into custody without incident about 9 a.m. at his South Stephenson Avenue apartment.

Murray, who worked as a restaurant server, also was ordered to have no contact with his mother or the person who contacted law enforcement.

In addition to the probable cause conference at 10 a.m. April 25, LaCost set Murray’s preliminary hearing for 1:30 p.m. May 2.