CEDAR CITY — A former art lecturer at Southern Utah University pleaded guilty after threatening to shoot people on campus, in addition to threatening campus employees, a prosecutor, officers and Cedar City in general.
Steven Charles Baggs, 45, admitted last month to saying he “could kill 30 students at SUU” in a call to the university’s human resources department on Dec. 12, 2022. He later said the students were innocent and he wouldn’t kill them, court documents state.
Baggs had asked the school to give him a tenure track position and pay for him to get a doctorate degree, according to documents. He was apparently an “emergency hire” and his employment at SUU had been temporary.
He threatened to “push back like Rambo” if the school did not give him what he wanted, charges state.
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Written by EMILY ASHCRAFT, KSL.com.
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