Posted on 05/08/2009 12:45:48 PM PDT by SJackson
A Wesleyan University coed who was shot dead earlier this week was not the first person her accused murderer targeted with harassing phone calls and threatening e-mails, the suspect's former Navy buddy told FOXNews.com.
Stephen Morgan, 29 — who is being held on $15 million bond in Wednesday's fatal shooting of Johanna Justin-Jinich at the Wesleyan bookstore in Middletown, Conn. — sent disturbing text messages to his onetime pal following his discharge in early 2003. One of the messages read: "In my path towards Divinity, you won't go unused,"
"I dodged a bullet on Wednesday and some poor Jewish girl got it instead," said the 32-year-old veteran, who referred to Morgan as "Psycho Steve" and asked not to be identified for fear of retribution. "I don't want him getting out of jail and trying to find me. He threatened to kill me so many freaking times. I didn't think he'd actually go through with it."
Morgan's former Naval acquaintance — who is Jewish, like Justin-Jinich — said he met the now-accused murderer while in the United Arab Emirates in 1999.
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At least he'll adjust to prison. If he's made credible death threats to other, he shouldn't be released on bail.
We live in a crazy psychotic world...
We need to be careful.....Prayers to the family of this young lady... She is with GOD now never to be hurt again....
Ah, the template must be served. The former sailor, home from service and severely damaged as a result, runs amok and kills a Jewish girl (minority, doncha know), and stands paralyzed by the enormity of his deed.
Just another piece of the puzzle, on the way to painting ALL former servicemen as some kind of domestic terrorists.
Just like Janet Napolitano said.
I didn’t think of that “connection”, I’ve been waiting to hear something about the handgun.
Methinks you’re overreacting. If a guy states he thinks it’s okay to kill Jews and later kills one, that’s a relevant issue.
The person interviewed met the perp in the service, so that aspect is also relevant.
I’m wondering about the UAE thing too.
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