ESPN Commenter Arrested Over Threats Of 'Dark Knight Rises' Massacre Repeat

Whether serious or not, threatening comments to an ESPN.com article led to a former student's arrest Monday, The Associated Press reports.

Former Yale University student Eric Yee, 21, was taken into custody after leaving sinister remarks on a piece about Miami Heat star LeBron James' new sneaker line. ESPN personnel turned Yee's remarks that he was watching kids and considering killing them over to authorities, who tracked Yee down and found several guns in the northern Los Angeles home he shared with his parents.

Yee's place of residence overlooked two schools.

His remarks reportedly likened his considered actions to those of James E. Holmes during Holmes' July 20 Aurora, Colo., massacre. Also a former college student, Holmes stormed into a packed midnight-premiere screening of "The Dark Knight Rises" and opened fire on the crowd. By the time he left the theater and was apprehended in the parking lot, Holmes had killed 12 people and injured another 58.

According to Yale officials, Yee withdrew from the school this past May for undisclosed reasons. He's currently in custody on $1 million bail on suspicion of making terrorist threats.

Yee wouldn't have been the first to invoke Holmes' carnage. A would-be copycat assailant was arrested Aug. 7 in Ohio after bringing a bag containing a 9mm Glock, loaded magazines and various knives into a theater screening "The Dark Knight Rises."