A social media influencer is being investigated by police after posting that he thought about attempting a mass shooting at a Harford County school. But social media users say the post was simply satire.

In a Sunday Facebook post, the Bel Air Police Department stated that Daniel George Hentschel, 28, posted a “disturbing” video at John Carroll School, a Catholic private school in Bel Air, saying he was almost a school shooter in 2013.

Hentschel, police said, wasn’t permitted to be there. School staff alerted police to the video and police determined there was “no immediate threat to the community and patrol checks have been enhanced.”

On Instagram, Hentschel told his 435,000 followers that he brought an AK-47 to his sophomore homecoming game. Footage included the John Carroll stadium, geese and Hentschel staring in the distance while the influencer explained in a voice-over that he spent thousands on therapy speculating why he never took the gun out of his trunk.

“Maybe I just needed to think about it. Maybe I was sick of other people telling me what to do, where to go, what to think. That’s what my therapist says at least,” he said in the voiceover. “But I don’t know. I think I just thought it’d be fun.”

Hentschel did not respond to requests for comment.

The Instagram video, with over a million views and 44,000 likes, ended with him holding his hand like a gun, pointing it toward a statue of Jesus Christ on the cross and making a shooting sound before the screen cuts to black.

Police said on Facebook that John Carroll school staff alerted them of the video. The post read that police believe Hentschel lives in Los Angeles but was visiting relatives in Maryland. Neither Hentschel nor his family appeared to have access to firearms, police said. They’ve consulted with the state’s attorney’s office about criminal charges against the influencer.

Harford’s State’s Attorney’s Office, however, said they cannot comment on “any present investigation or potential criminal charges at this time.” Bel Air Police did not immediately respond to requests for comment, nor did officials at John Carroll School.

On Sunday, Hentschel posted a screenshot of the Bel Air Police Department’s Facebook post with the caption, “Hey y’all I need a lawyer!!”

Police said they take threats seriously but comments from social media users say the school shooter video was comedy.

“His subversive comedic style blurs the boundaries of reality and fiction,” one user wrote under his post of the screenshot.

A Facebook user commented “Dan took a joke too far now he is actually in trouble I am cackling” under the police department’s post.

“It’s no longer skits and satire. It’s art,” an Instagram user commented under Hentschel’s video.

Hentschel’s YouTube channel, where he has 231,000 subscribers, shows a consistent stream of dark humor videos. Titles of his posts include “I Caused my Ex’s Death At THIS Intersection,” “I Shot My Waitress” and “Why I Pretended To Be My Own GF [girlfriend] Online For 6 Months.”

In a two-week old video he titled “Ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho hohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohoho,” he sits inside a car in a Santa costume aggressively laughing and staring at himself in a mirror. After asking himself, “What do you want for Christmas, little boy?” he takes off the hat and beard then answers “retribution.”

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