(Benton, IL) — The man accused of threatening to set off bombs and behead people at the SIU Carbondale campus is going to have to wait a bit longer before going to trial. Derrick Burns was supposed to face a judge on February 2nd, but that’s been pushed back to April 6th. That gives officials time to conduct a court-ordered mental fitness test on Burns. He’s accused of mailing in several letters to the university in 2012 and 2013, threatening to rape students, cut their heads off, set off bombs, and go on a shooting spree at the school. He’s pleaded not guilty to the charges.

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