Copied from this URL:
September 17, 2009, 02:00 PM ET
Student Arrested for Allegedly Posting Menacing Facebook Messages
By Ben Terris
An 18-year-old student at St. John’s University,
in New York, has been arrested after allegedly
posting messages on Facebook in which he
threatened to kill people on the campus with a
“Virginia Tech attack,” referring to the 2007
campus shootings that killed 32 people,
law-enforcement officials said today.
Radames Santiago is being charged with making
a terroristic threat, and if convicted he could face
up to seven years in prison, according to a
written statement by Richard A. Brown, the
district attorney in Queens. The messages
were posted on Monday and Tuesday.
Officials say Mr. Santiago posted messages
on Facebook saying he was going “crazy”
and wanted people to “watch CNN or
something every day after” he went on his killing spree.
Mr. Santiago told detectives he was drunk and depressed
"about everything” when he posted the Facebook
messages, the statement said.
Dominic Scianna, assistant vice president for
media relations at St. John’s, said in an interview
that because of the quick notification of the
New York Police and good communication
with students, “everything is fine” at the university.
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment