The Gruesome Snapchat That Led to 2 College Students' Shocking Arrests
Durham, New Hampshire, police told Foster's Daily Democrat two University of New Hampshire students have been arrested after another student was found on campus with two stab wounds. The arrests were made after the police were shown a Snapchat screengrab of a man holding a knife with bloody hands and an obscene caption allegedly referring to the stabbing.
According to WMUR, the suspects are UNH students Matthew Gibbons, 20, and Eric Denning, 21. They were arrested Saturday after victim Dean Skelley was hospitalized. Police said another student took the screengrab and showed it to them, naming Gibbons and Denning as the people in the Snapchat.
Boston.com reports Gibbons faces a first-degree assault charge and posted $100,000 bail. Denning faces second-degree assault and criminal liability charges and was released into a community corrections program.
UNH released a statement to WMUR saying, "Behavior of this type will absolutely not be tolerated and we have launched our own investigation into the incident." A UNH student told the station the stabbing shocked him and that "nothing like that ever really happens in Durham."
Skelley remains in the hospital in stable condition.
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