App State Student Charged for Gunman Hoax

"The motive, generally speaking, was he maintains he found his door damaged when he came home," said Matt Stevens, an investigator with the Boone Police Department. "But he admits there was no man or armed man. He went to report it to his management and believed he would be held responsible. It sort of snowballed."

He is to appear April 22 in district court.

The service was created in response to shootings last April at Virginia Tech, where a student gunman killed 32 people and himself.