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A 21-year-old Chicago man was arrested on Monday for threatening to kill 16 white male students or staff on the University of Chicago in retaliation for the shooting last year of black teenager Laquan McDonald by a white police officer, according to law enforcement officials.
Jabari R. Dean was charged with transmitting a threat in interstate commerce and, if convicted, could face up to five years in prison, the U.S. Attorney in Chicago said in a statement.
The University of Illinois at Chicago said one of its students, living off campus, was arrested for making the threat, which caused the University of Chicago to cancel classes on Monday.
UIC confirmed that Dean, who wore a red school sweatshirt at his initial court appearance, according to a Chicago Sun-Times reporter, is an undergraduate studying electrical engineering and has been enrolled since fall 2015. Dean was ordered held in custody until bond conditions could be determined, likely tomorrow.
When investigators searched the off-campus residence of the UIC student, they found no gun, according to the Sun-Times, which cited a source familiar with the investigation.
According to a criminal complaint filed by the FBI, someone called the agency to report a comment he saw on a website that the Chicago Tribune reported as www.worldstarhiphop.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/30/us-usa-chicago-threat-idUSKBN0TJ23K20151130
Jabari R. Dean was charged with transmitting a threat in interstate commerce and, if convicted, could face up to five years in prison, the U.S. Attorney in Chicago said in a statement.
The University of Illinois at Chicago said one of its students, living off campus, was arrested for making the threat, which caused the University of Chicago to cancel classes on Monday.
UIC confirmed that Dean, who wore a red school sweatshirt at his initial court appearance, according to a Chicago Sun-Times reporter, is an undergraduate studying electrical engineering and has been enrolled since fall 2015. Dean was ordered held in custody until bond conditions could be determined, likely tomorrow.
When investigators searched the off-campus residence of the UIC student, they found no gun, according to the Sun-Times, which cited a source familiar with the investigation.
According to a criminal complaint filed by the FBI, someone called the agency to report a comment he saw on a website that the Chicago Tribune reported as www.worldstarhiphop.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/30/us-usa-chicago-threat-idUSKBN0TJ23K20151130
