A North Tonawanda man is now facing the possibility of up to five years in federal prison after pleading guilty to posting a threatening video on Facebook in which he threatened to carry out a school shooting. Daniel Damon Kuhar, 29, entered his guilty plea on Thursday, according to court records.
The incident came to light when the North Tonawanda Police Department contacted the FBI on February 2nd, 2024, reporting that Kuhar had posted a disturbing video on his Facebook account the day before. The video depicted high school students at a dance being shot by an automatic firearm as described in a criminal complaint filed by the FBI.
In the video, an audio track can be heard with a voice asking, "Damon, where are you?" Kuhar responds, "I'm walking into my high school." The voice then pleads, "Don't do it," to which Kuhar replies, "You don't understand, they ruined my life. Now I'm going to ruin their night," according to the criminal complaint.
The video then transitions to security camera footage showing a shooter entering The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, where three students and three staff members were tragically killed in a shooting incident in March 2023.
The video, titled "Memes to Be Murdered By," concludes with the date "11/26/24" displayed on the screen. Prior to uploading the video, Kuhar had made a concerning post on his Facebook account on January 28th stating, "I don't get mad. I take all that anger and I think of ways I could kill that person in the most brutal way possible and I put it in one of my videos."
Further details revealed that Kuhar had been on the premises of St. John's Lutheran Elementary School in Wheatfield on two occasions last year, one of which involved him wearing a face mask and carrying a backpack. Additionally, in October, Kuhar allegedly informed an employee at Tops Friendly Markets in North Tonawanda that he had "something evil planned."
During an interview with the North Tonawanda police on February 1st, Kuhar admitted to creating the video and being present on the property of St. John's School. He is currently in custody awaiting his sentencing hearing scheduled for December in U.S. District Court in Buffalo.
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Based on independent reporting and the Buffalo News.