Posted on 04/06/2018 6:29:47 AM PDT by jalisco555
Syracuse, NY -- A Syracuse University student, who had stockpiled ammunition and gun accessories in his downtown apartment, was stopped before carrying out threats of a mass shooting, city police revealed today.
Xiaoteng Zhan, 22, was deported back to China by federal agents March 20 as he returned to Syracuse from spring break in Mexico, Syracuse Deputy Police Chief Derek McGork said.
Zhan told a friend that the "dark side" had pushed him to buy a gun, bulletproof vest and other items, McGork said, reading from an English translation of their messages.
"I might use the gun to cause trouble," Zhan said, adding, "I have been preparing."
When his alarmed friend begged him not to shoot children or kill her, Zhan responded: "You're the only one I don't want to kill."
(Excerpt) Read more at syracuse.com ...
Down the road a bit PING.
That’s a gun control law that I’d be all for. I can’t see any reason for a non-citizen to own a firearm, if for no other reason than a NICS check would mean nothing. How would you run a real NICS check on a guy that came to the USA from Somali last year?
Around the corner for me. Literally.
“Its a little harder to sneak in from China than from Mexico.”
Yeah, first you have to fly to Mexico and only then do you cross the border.
He visited friends in Mexico. Are the friends still there?
Why isn’t this guy doing 25 to life in some supermax?
Gee, those of us who graduated Hobart thought of Syracuse as a ‘Safe School’ . . .
If FR had a sidebar topic for stories that DO smell right these days, it'd be sparsely populated.
Not sure he actually committed a crime. Anyway, hes Chinas problem now.
just checking but planning a mass shooting is NOT crime?
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