The family of the teenager who was put behind bars after he was arrested following some inappropriate remarks made on Facebook, has received $500,000 to help the family post bail for their son.
19-year old Justin Carter has been in jail for over four months before the “anonymous good Samaritan” sent the money to his family.
Carter was jailed for posting angry messages to Facebook while quarrelling with another user over a League of Legends game.
“Someone had said something to the effect of ‘Oh you’re insane, you’re crazy, you’re messed up in the head,’” Justin’s father Jack Carter told a Texas news station. “To which he replied ‘Oh yeah, I’m real messed up in the head, I’m going to go shoot up a school full of kids and eat their still, beating hearts,’ and the next two lines were lol and JK.”
Another user saw the post, Googled Justin Carter’s whereabouts, and when seeing he lived near a school, contacted the authorities.
The comments obviously brought up feelings and images of the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting, which was highly publicised across the world.
Justin is now out on bail, with a court hearing on 16 July 2013.
Source: MSNBC
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