The Brief
- A San Jose State University graduate student is facing a federal charge for posting multiple bomb threats in bathrooms around the school campus.
- Zihen “Tony” Fang is alleged to have left numerous notes around campus, many of which included racial slurs, swastikas, and threats of shootings or bombings on specific dates.
- The messages have impacted attendance at the school, with many students and staff staying home on the dates on which violence was threatened.
SAN JOSE, Calif. – The Justice Department on Monday announced the arrest of a 30-year-old San Jose man on a federal charge of false information and hoaxes.
Court documents allege that Zihen “Tony” Fang, wrote a hateful and threatening message placed in a plastic cover sheet taped to the bathroom wall of a men’s restroom at the San Jose State University campus. Fang is a graduate student at the school, pursuing a master’s degree in Data Science.
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