A 28-year-old Minot man is accused of not only making a bomb threat to the Ward County courthouse on May 25 that resulted in an evacuation, but he is also being held on a charge he shot his 5-year-old stepdaughter with a BB gun.
Jacob Ryan Hill is charged with Class C felony terrorizing for the incident for the bomb threat. No bomb was found and people were allowed to return to the buildings about an hour later.
Hill was already being held at the Ward County Jail on a charge that he shot his 5-year-old stepdaughter in the leg with a BB gun this spring and was in possession of meth and drug paraphernalia this week. Read the full story here ▶