An Indiana synthetic on-line threats towards gamers on Cal State Lengthy Seashore’s basketball group after a championship sport with Cal State Fullerton earlier this month, officers mentioned Monday, March 21.
Authorities have been investigating the threats despatched through direct message on Fb, Cal State Lengthy Seashore College police Lt. Carol Almaguer mentioned.
The threats got here after Cal State Fullerton’s 72-71 victory over Lengthy Seashore State within the Large West Match championship sport on Saturday, March 12, close to Las Vegas, Nevada.
The suspect despatched a number of messages to the LBSU Athletics Fb web page, referencing the college needs to be “blown up” and the group’s coach and his household poisoned, authorities say.
One other message mentioned that one of many group’s gamers will die “by a bullet,” in accordance with authorities. There was additionally a photograph despatched of a knife being held in somebody’s hand.
College police investigators consider they've recognized the suspect and have been working with regulation enforcement in Indiana, Almaguer mentioned.
“(The threats) have been fairly particular, they have been menacing,” Almaguer mentioned. “The character of the threats have been in opposition to their lives principally; there have been some racial slurs inside that very same textual content thread.”