India, May 18 -- A man from Arkansas reportedly threatened to carry out a shooting at his local Walmart if the current hantavirus outbreak led to a lockdown similar to that of the coronavirus pandemic.

Aaron Keith Bynum, 20, was taken into custody on Friday for allegedly making this mass shooting threat while participating in online gaming, as stated in a news release from the Marion County Sheriff's Office, NY POST reported.

Bynum reportedly informed other players that he would unleash gunfire inside his nearest Walmart "if the country were locked down again due to the hantavirus."

On May 9, another gamer on the server alerted the FBI's National Threats Operations Center regarding the threat. The anonymous informant also supplied a us...