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Brattleboro, Vermont – A convicted Black career criminal was arrested after police say he threatened to shoot up a White high school in a sleepy New England town.
Despite making a series of anti-White remarks online and during his arrest, authorities have yet to file hate crime charges. Additionally, the judge swiftly determined that the incident did not qualify as “domestic terrorism.”
According to reports, 39-year-old Kashka Lundy—a convicted Black felon in the state of North Carolina—was confirmed by police to be the “person of interest” behind a series of violent threats made to numerous Brattleboro schools and personnel on Thursday, the 24th.
Police say concerned citizens first notified them that a man going by the name of “Ka Bugatti” had threatened on social media to “shoot crackers” and commit a mass shooting at Brattleboro Union High School. In another, The Reformer reported that Lundy allegedly threatened to kill a specific staff member.
According to the education data aggregator Great Schools, Brattleboro Union High School is 84% White, with “Equity” ranking among the school’s lowest metric due to a perceived lack of “racial diversity” among students.
On Friday morning, Lundy was arrested by Brattleboro police. Among his threats, police say the Black man taunted social media users to meet him at the school so he could “shoot their face(s) off.”
“‘I got 30 rounds in one clip. I’m waiting on kids. I’m not playing,’” he wrote in a Facebook post. In other comments, he reportedly threatened Brattleboro’s White community by asserting he would “shoot you crackers.”
During his arrest, Lundy reportedly told Brattleboro police, “I can act white and do what the white people do and go shoot the school up.” During interrogation, Lundy told police he never said he would “shoot the school up,” despite authorities presenting evidence of his erratic social media posts.
He would add that he made some comments after he “snapped” after allegedly being harassed by the baby-daddy of his current girlfriend’s biological kids.
Despite the severity of the threats made against White Americans, Windham Superior Court Judge John Treadwell lowered Lundy’s bond amount to only $5,000 after initially setting it at a more appropriate $20,000. Additionally, Judge Treadwell shot down a single charge of domestic terrorism, citing a perceived “lack of evidence” in the case.
Lundy is a prolific career criminal currently facing charges in other Vermont counties and has convictions in other states. Windham County Deputy State’s Attorney Dana Nevins said Lundy was a clear flight risk and had a history of resisting police officers. When asked for more information about Lundy’s previous convictions, Nevins told The Reformer that the record was “confidential.”
“White supremacy has been noted as a driving force escalating hate and discrimination at disproportionate levels especially for communities of color.”
Vermont Office of Racial Equity
News reports from as early as April, however, suggest Lundy had been previously arrested in Guilford on domestic violence charges and was one of three picked up in Putney on a slew of criminal charges, including obstruction of justice.
Lundy’s attorney, Ian Goodnow, argued that “bail was not needed” for Lundy because he “had children in the area,” which includes a daughter and a 2-year-old son. He also opposed a court-mandated condition that his client stay away from local schools despite his criminal history and documented violent threats.
It is currently unknown if hate crime charges will ultimately be considered in the case, but this story is developing, and the Justice Report will provide updates as they become available.
According to the most recent US Census Report estimates Brattleboro, Vermont, is currently 91.6% White alone, with Black Americans listed as only 0.7% of the total population. Despite these demographics, the city still became the epicenter of the macabre axe-killing of White 36-year-old Leah Rosin-Pritchard at the hands of what police say was a Black vagrant in a targeted attack.
Despite a clear threat aimed directly at the White community’s most vulnerable members, a representative from the Vermont Office of Racial Equity on Wednesday affirmed that “White supremacy has been noted as a driving force escalating hate and discrimination at disproportionate levels especially for communities of color.”
Kashka Lundy’s threats and violent social media commentary should not be taken lightly, considering the unfortunate realities behind American mass shootings. According to the Rockefeller Institute of Government’s Mass Shooting Factsheet, America’s minority non-White population accounted for a whopping 45.9% of all mass shootings in the nation.
On January 23rd—one day before Lundy penned his alleged threats against White children online—America was shaken to its core when a radicalized Black teenager opened fire inside Antioch High School in Nashville, Tennessee, dedicating his horrific actions to spree killers of the past. The suspect in that crime, Black 17-year-old Solomon Henderson, left behind a political manifesto laden with “incel” talking points and comments suggesting he was lashing out due to racial self-loathing.
In November, one person was killed and 16 others injured after two Black men with fully automatic weapons—later revealed to be converted Glock handguns—were accused of opening fire at an “unauthorized house party” at Alabama’s Tuskegee University, a historically Black school. The violent scene would end up being just one of many “Homecoming” mass shootings, all of which occurred in predominantly Black neighborhoods and cities in 2024.
In May of that same year, credible threats against White people in New Jersey led federal authorities to arrest 23-year-old Joshua Cobb, a deranged USMC veteran who reportedly wanted to “cause mayhem on the White community” and “erase” as many Whites as he could. An investigation determined Cobb had hatched a plan to open fire at an Aldi grocery store and a local gym, motivated by an extreme hatred of White people due to their “privilege.”
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