By Shavonne Walker

shavonne.walker@salisburypost.com

SALISBURY — A Salisbury man already facing a court case for sex offenses was recently charged by Davidson County authorities with threatening to shoot and cut a man, according to a criminal summons.

Peter Thomas Kiever, 22, was served with the summons by Rowan County officials on Nov. 3 for misdemeanor communicating threats and misdemeanor attempted assault with a deadly weapon. He was not issued a bond for the summons.

According to the summons, Kiever threatened to cut Gregory Williams while holding a knife and said he’d be back to shoot him. The summons said the threat was made in a manner that a reasonable person would believe the threat would be carried out.

In March 2014, Kiever, who was then 19, was originally charged after authorities accused him of posting nude photos of young girls on social media sites and sending them nude pictures of himself. He was arrested and placed under a $250,000 secured bond and remained in the county detention center until his release on Sept. 7, 2016.

The initial investigation began on Oct. 7, 2013, when Granite Quarry authorities received a harassment complaint against Kiever through the use of Twitter, Facebook, Kik and other social media sites. Investigators with the Granite Quarry-Faith Joint Police Authority, Landis and Rockwell police departments arrested Kiever at his Stonewyck Drive home in Granite Quarry.

Kiever lived there with his parents, including father Brian Kiever, who ran unsuccessfully for sheriff in 2014. Investigators say they linked Peter Kiever to the social media accounts used to post the illicit photos through a computer owned by his father. Police received information that Peter Kiever was soliciting nude pictures from juveniles and had them stored on a thumb drive.

Granite Quarry authorities said in 2015 that after Kiever’s initial arrest other victims came forward and he was additionally charged with several more felonies including first-degree rape of a child under 13 and second-degree sexual exploitation of a minor.

Kiever has yet to appear before a judge in the 2014 case. He is expected in a Davidson County courtoom later this month for the assault offense.