U. of I. warns parents of Halloween threat
The University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign has sent an e-mail to some parents of Illinois students regarding a threat to shoot someone on Halloween night.
The e-mail, which was sent from the university’s Parent Programs Office and can be read here, asks for the public’s help in getting information about a note containing the threat that was found Oct. 5 in a men’s restroom at the university Undergraduate Library.
According to the e-mail, it had been sent Thursday to all faculty, staff and students at the university.
While the threat specifically mentions areas on or near the Urbana-Champaign campus, police have formed a multi-jurisdictional task force and are being assisted by the FBI.
For more information, read the university alert HERE
http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2008/10/u-of-i-warns-parents-of-halloween-threat.html
Report: Student made up campus attack
A Muslim student at Elmhurst College who said she was physically assaulted by a masked gunman on the campus last week has been charged with filing a false police report, WGN-AM 720 reported this afternoon.
Elmhurst police said the 19-year-old sophomore, Safia Z. Jilani of Oak Brook, had been processed, posted bond and been released, WGN reported.
Elmhurst Police Chief Steve Neubauer said Jilani did not say why she had made up the story, according to WGN.
The woman said she was hit with a gun in a bathroom in the college’s science center Thursday night last week, authorities said. Anti-Muslim graffiti was written on the wall, authorities said, similar to a threat written on the same student’s locker the week before that said: “Die Muslims, Rid us of your filth.”
http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2008/10/report-student-made-up-campus-attack.html