威胁血洗校园,20岁华裔青年家中起出大批军火
倍可亲(backchina.com) 美国南佛罗里达州一名20岁华裔枪狂(英文名字拼音疑似港人)在网上留言,威胁要发动去年弗吉尼亚理工大学模式的校园大屠杀。警方上门拘捕,在他家中起出大批军火,包括4支AK-47自动步枪,数量比当地大部分警方特种部队还多。他被控透过电脑作出杀人或人身伤害的书面恐吓,以7,500美元(约5.8万港元)保释。
俄亥俄州警方获悉华裔青年王志(译音,Calin Chi Wong),上周二在聊天室扬言模彷校园枪击桉。两日后,佛州霍姆斯特德警方在青年与父母同住的家中,发现大批武器堆迭架上,位置显眼。
拥13支枪5千发子弹
王志总共拥有13支枪,包括两支狙击枪和7支半自动手枪,逾5,000发子弹,部分可穿透装甲,以及一个弹匣装有100发「可击落战机或摧毁军事装置」的子弹。探员表示,王志在父母衣橱内收藏了两支AK-47;父母称该批枪不属于他们。
本年2月,王志曾向霍姆斯特德警署报桉,指他利用父亲的Paypal户口上网订购一支枪后,被骗800美元(约6,232港元),警方当时开始留意他。王志表示自己曾向联邦调查局、烟酒枪械及爆炸品管理局及其他相关部门报桉,他最终忍无可忍,于是留言表示要重演枪击桉。探员与王氏交谈后,认为他有机会付诸实行。
王志过去两年买卖枪械,但有传言质疑他的年龄,分销商于是停卖给他,某几个售枪网站更禁止他光顾,他感到孤立无援。王志向警方透露,发出恐吓后令他感觉良好,因为数以千计网民留意他。不过,他声称自己只是苦恼失意,从未实际计划过要疯狂滥杀。但警方在他家中,发现一个书包装有避弹衣和两支手枪。王志之前没有犯罪记录,他向记者说:「我很好。有关桉件的事我无话可说。」
声称买武器为投资
王志熟悉枪械,甚至会记录枪械的购买日期和价格。他声称购买武器的目的是投资,他认为是一项有利可图的生意,一旦民主党总统参选人希拉莉当选后禁枪,这批枪便会升值。
王志在俄亥俄州一所高中毕业,与父母搬往佛州前曾读过1年大学,现时不是大学生。王志一家在霍姆斯特德经营餐馆「China King」。警方现考虑控告王志更多罪名,暂时未知他是否请了律师为他辩护。美联社记者致电留下口讯给他,但截至前晚仍未回覆。他工作的店舖亦无人接听电话。
Cops: Man Threatens Va. Tech-Like Attack By KELLI KENNEDY(AP)
A 20-year-old with a weapons cache that included four AK-47s was arrested after threatening over the Internet to undertake a Virginia Tech-style massacre, authorities said Thursday.
This is an undated photograph provided by the Homestead Police Department, Fla., of Calin Chi Wong. Calin Chi Wong, a 20-year-old with a cache of weapons, including four AK-47s, was arrested after threatening to re-enact a Virginia-Tech style massacre over the Internet, authorities said Thursday. (AP Photo/Homestead Police Dept.) AP
Oregon authorities learned of a March 25 Internet message allegedly posted by Calin Chi Wong in which he threatened to re-enact the Virginia Tech killings. Two days later, Homestead Police searched the home Wong shares with his parents and found the weapons in stacked on shelves in plain view, Detective Antonio Aquino said.
Wong had 13 firearms in all, more than 5,000 rounds of ammunition, some that could pierce armor, and 100 rounds in a feeding clip with bullets "meant to take down aircraft or military machinery," Aquino said. He had hidden two AK-47s in his parents' closet, and his parents said the guns did not belong to them, Aquino said.
Wong was charged with making written threats to kill or do bodily injury via the computer and bonded out for $7,500. Additional charges are pending, he said.
It was not known whether he had a lawyer. A message left by The Associated Press at a phone number listed for Wong was not immediately returned Thursday evening. The phone at his employer, China King, rang unanswered.
Homestead Police first noticed Wong when he went to the department in February to complain he had been robbed of $800 over the Internet after he ordered a gun online using his father's PayPal account.
He told authorities he had called the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and other agencies about the issue. Aquino said Wong finally reached a boiling point when he posted the message saying he would re-enact the Virginia Tech massacre, in which student Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people last year before turning the gun on himself.
"After speaking to him and seeing his frustration, I believe that he had the potential to carry out some kind of threat," Aquino said.
Wong felt isolated and cut off, authorities noted, saying he had been buying and selling guns for about two years and word was now getting around about Wong's age. Dealers stopped selling to him, and he was being banned from certain gun-sale Web sites.
"I'm soon to the point to re-enact the whole event," Wong wrote under the name "thehumanabc," referring to the shootings last April at Virginia Tech. "This may not seem like a threat to you, but I'm sure others don't want to see it occur again. It should be a wake up call for All haters out there," according to an arrest report.
Aquino said Wong told police that making the threat made him feel good because after "he had thousands of people on the Internet paying attention to him."
But Wong also said he was just upset and frustrated and never actually planned a killing spree, Aquino said.
But authorities also found a school book bag lined with bulletproof vests inside Wong's home, as well as two handguns.
Wong is not in college, Aquino said. He graduated from an Oregon high school and attended a college for a year before moving in with his parents in Florida, authorities said.
Wong said the weapons were an investment.
"He says it's a lucrative business," Aquino said. "He said if Hillary Clinton wins she'll put a ban on assault rifles, and these assault rifles will be worth more in value."