Patrick Dai, a 21-year-old junior at the Ivy League school, was arrested Tuesday and charged federally with “posting threats to kill or injure another using interstate communications,” the US Attor…
is due in court Wednesday, prosecutors said, as antisemitic threats and incidents have flared across the United States amid mounting Mideast conflict following Hamas’ attack on Israel.
In one post, Dai wrote he would “bring an assault rifle to campus” and shoot Jewish people, according to the US Attorney’s Office. The website where the posts appeared told the FBI that at least two posts were associated with two different IP addresses in New York. CNN confirmed that the first IP address was located in the Pittsford, New York, area. The FBI in its affidavit said it was “resolved to a person and residence affiliated with Dai.”The FBI did not disclose the second IP address, but in the affidavit said it was traced to Ithaca.
“Jewish students on campus right now are unbelievably terrified for their lives,” Molly Goldstein, co-president of the Cornell Center for Jewish Living,Cornell said some classes may have remote learning options amid concern for people’s safety.
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