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'I'll go blow lipscomb tf up rn': Facebook Threat Over Charlie Kirk Memorial Lands Nashville Woman in Jail

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Confirmed HoaxDetermined to be a hoax. The institutional response is documented because it reveals how the alert system performed under a perceived real threat.

In late October 2025, Lipscomb University's Director of Security received a screenshot of a Facebook post threatening to 'blow up' the Nashville campus. The post was made in response to a news story about a student-led memorial held on campus for Charlie Kirk. Lipscomb security alerted Metro Nashville Police, who traced the post and arrested 25-year-old Karissa Hamlet on felony charges. The university issued a campus-community advisory noting no active threat existed.

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Institution
Lipscomb University
Private Masters · TN
~4,900 studentsLipscomb Ready
Confirmed Timeline

Alert Sequence

2 messages in sequence

Some alert texts below are approximate reconstructions from news coverage, not confirmed verbatim transcripts. Reconstructed texts are shown in italic with a dashed border. Verified verbatim texts have a solid border and are marked accordingly.

INITIAL ALERTEmail
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Lipscomb Community: Lipscomb University Security has been made aware of a threat made on social media against the university. The threat was reported to the Metro Nashville Police Department, who is actively investigating. There is no known active threat to our campus at this time. We will provide updates as we learn more.

This text has been reconstructed from news coverage and may not reflect the exact original wording.

Reconstructed from Herd Media (the Lipscomb student newspaper) and Metro Nashville Police news release; Lipscomb's standard practice is email-only for non-imminent threat advisories
The post itself read 'I'll go blow lipscomb tf up rn' according to the Metro Nashville Police affidavit
Lipscomb's security director acted quickly to relay the screenshot to Metro Nashville Police, which used the social-media account information to identify Hamlet
FOLLOW-UPEmail
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Lipscomb Community Update: Metro Nashville Police have arrested an individual in connection with the social media threat against Lipscomb University. The person responsible was not a student or affiliated with the university. There is no continuing threat to our community. Thank you to MNPD and to the campus community for your vigilance.

This text has been reconstructed from news coverage and may not reflect the exact original wording.

Reconstructed from Herd Media coverage and the Nashville.gov MNPD news release announcing Hamlet's arrest
Hamlet was charged with felony Threat of Mass Violence in School and felony False Reporting under Tennessee statute
Lipscomb explicitly noted Hamlet was not a student — a common feature of post-arrest follow-up alerts that are designed to defuse community fears about an internal threat
Context

Background

In late October 2025, Lipscomb University's Director of Security received a screenshot of a Facebook post threatening to 'blow up' the university. The post was a response to a news story about a student-led memorial held on the Lipscomb campus for Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist who had been killed several weeks earlier. The screenshot was relayed to Metro Nashville Police, who used social-media account information to identify the poster as 25-year-old Karissa Hamlet. Hamlet was arrested and charged with felony Threat of Mass Violence in School and felony False Reporting under Tennessee Code Annotated 39-13-104 and 39-16-502. Lipscomb's Office of Security issued an advisory to the campus community via email, and the university subsequently confirmed Hamlet was not a student. The arrest was announced by MNPD on October 29, 2025. Lipscomb Academy, the university's affiliated K-12 school, was also referenced in coverage but was not the target of the post. The case illustrates how political-news-driven threats — particularly those tied to high-profile killings like Kirk's — have moved from rhetorical excess into prosecutable territory under Tennessee's mass-violence-threat statute.
Analysis

Key Findings

The threat was made through a public Facebook post in response to a news article about an on-campus memorial — a vector that police were able to trace within hours via the platform's account information
Lipscomb's email-only alert distribution (rather than SMS/push) reflects a triage decision that the threat was non-imminent, while still informing the community of the active investigation
Hamlet's prosecution under Tennessee's felony Threat of Mass Violence in School statute (TCA 39-13-104) — rather than misdemeanor harassment — reflects the post-Covenant School policy posture in Tennessee where any school-targeting threat is treated as a serious offense
Outcome
Karissa Hamlet, 25, was arrested and charged with felony Threat of Mass Violence in School and felony False Reporting. The threat was determined to be non-credible. Hamlet was not a Lipscomb student.
Provenance

Sources

  1. Official
    Woman Charged with Making Threat of Mass Violence Against Lipscomb University (MNPD via Nashville.gov)
    nashville.gov
  2. News
    Woman charged over online threat to blow up Nashville school (WSMV)
    wsmv.com
  3. News
    Nashville woman arrested for allegedly threatening to blow up Lipscomb (Fox 17)
    fox17.com
  4. Student Paper
    Bomb threat against Lipscomb diverted by Lipscomb Security team (Herd Media)
    lipscombmedia.com
  5. News
    Woman charged with threatening to 'blow up' Nashville school (WKRN)
    wkrn.com
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Added May 2026Updated May 2026Via ingestion