APPLETON, WI (WTAQ) – A charge of making a terrorist threat has been filed against the suspect whose actions led to the closure of Fox River Mall earlier this week.
Christopher Hawkins, who was arrested in Minnesota on Wednesday, does not have a court date scheduled yet in Outagamie County court.
According to the complaint, Hawkins and his girlfriend had an argument Tuesday while in a parking ramp near the mall.
At the end of the argument, the criminal complaint states his girlfriend saw Hawkins remove a silver handgun from the trunk of his car and leave the parking ramp in his vehicle.
About ten minutes later, Hawkins called his girlfriend. Hawkins told her that he was in the mall parking lot. Hawkins said he was going to shoot up the mall and she might as well call the police.
Hawkins said, “I guarantee by the end of the night someone is going to die,” the complaint states.
The criminal complaint does not state that Hawkins was ever actually at the mall property, other that his statement on the phone relayed to police by his girlfriend.
