Maryland teacher gets disappeared for writing fictional book about school shooting

[pnwmom]

85. The simplest explanation is that some idiot got suspicious after learning about the book,

reported him to the police, the police went charging in looking for weapons, frightened the young man half to death, and used his reaction as a pretext for taking him for a psych evaluation.

This was a 23 year old teacher who had been nominated for a best teacher award.
Who had passed a background check the year before.
Who had written a book about a school shooting while he was still a college student.
Who had written another book, online published last fall, about a militaristic government.
Who wrote his fantasy novels under pen names.
Who went to Court to get a legal name change, for personal reasons, when he was 18.
Whose apartment contained no weapons or anything else the police were expecting to find.

Who was young. And scary. And black.

That's the simplest explanation, IMHO.