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Embry Riddle Student Arrested For Threating To Kill Professor

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DAYTONA BEACH (CBSMiami) -- A Florida student is under arrest, accused of threatening to kill his professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

Daytona Beach Police Deputy Chief Craig Capri said 33-year-old Konstantinos Kostakis was arrested Thursday.

He's charged with making a written threat to kill or injure.

Capri said the student confessed.

The Daytona Beach News-Journal reports police went to the College of Aviation building on April 1st after assistant professor of commercial space operations Diane Howard found the typed letter. It claimed two heavily-armed students would shoot her.

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