Salt Lake Tribune · May 20, 2019
Orem man arrested after he posted that he would ‘shoot’ YouTube employees
(Photo courtesy Utah County Jail) David Levon SwansonDavid Levon Swanson, 35, was taken into custody on Saturday for investigation of making terroristic threats, a second-degree felony.
In one comment he posted April 30 on a YouTube video, Swanson wrote, “When I visit your campus in two weeks I'll be able to shoot any employees exiting, from the convenience of my car.”
According to police, Swanson “claimed he meant a video shoot or taking pictures.” But he also told police that he drove to the Bay Area in California — YouTube is headquartered in San Bruno, 12 miles south of San Francisco — “with a firearm in his possession two weeks after posting” the comment about shooting employees.