A Kennesaw State Police report revealed that a student who was detained on Aug. 29 after carrying an unlicensed gun on campus was threatening to kill other “students who wronged him.”
The KSU Police Department originally detained Kenneth Alvin Glover on Aug. 29 after receiving a call from his mother requesting a welfare check. After receiving the call, responding officers found Glover outside of the Commons on the Kennesaw campus talking to a group of other students, according to the report.
An officer met with Glover’s mother, Janice Glover, in the Lutheran Church lot, according to the report. While they were speaking, she told the officer that Glover was bipolar and was not taking his medication. She reported that she did not know how long Glover had been off of his medication and she said that he seemed to be in a “manic state.”
His mother also stated that Glover may have a gun, but “could not substantiate why she thought so.”
Officers decided to have a counselor from Student Success Services come and try to evaluate Glover. Glover later agreed to speak with Dr. Joshua Gunn, the dean and executive director of Counseling and Psychological Services and licensed psychologist, and they sat at a nearby table. According to the report, Gunn was “familiar” with Glover.
Gunn reported that Glover would not speak with him for long, but said that Glover threatened to “kill students who wronged him.” The responding officers then detained Glover for an involuntary evaluation.
“As I transported Kenneth [Glover], he asked if he was on camera, and I pointed to the camera in the car and informed him it was recording. Kenneth appeared to be pleased by this and started to ramble on about killing people, he was Jesus, is known to stack bodies and other various other odd language,” the report states.
Glover was transported to Ridgeview Institute, a behavioral hospital in Smyrna.
After Glover was detained, police found a loaded handgun in Glover’s backpack and issued a warrant out for his arrest.
The KSU PD recently also issued a second arrest warrant after Glover uploaded a video of his interaction with Dr. Gunn to social media. The video was provided to police on Tuesday, Sept. 4, according to their website.
KSU Chief of Police Edward Stephens originally stated in an email to faculty, staff and students on Aug. 30, the day after the incident, that “despite rumors circulated on social media, KSUPD has no evidence that the student made any threats towards specific individuals or the community in general.”
Sasha Avchukov contributed to this article.
