Authorities say University of Chicago threat vowed revenge for black teen's shooting | Fox News

 

So it will be interesting to see what happens in this case. Wouldnt this be considered a hate crime or domestic terrorist act.

 

Dean is a first-year undergraduate student in electrical engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago, UIC spokeswoman Sherri McGinnis Gonzalez. Dean's lawyer declined comment Monday. A judge ordered Dean held until Tuesday's bond hearing, when prosecutors will likely agree to let him be released to his mother.

 

Despite the threat mentioning three guns, a prosecutor told Monday's hearing that Dean did not appear to pose a threat. The Sun-Times reported that no weapons were found by police who searched Dean's off-campus apartment. He faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison.

 

Dean's uncle, Phillip Rutherford, told reporters that his nephew had no intention of carrying out his threat, calling it "just fun and games."

 

"Stupid. Silly ignorant. Goofy. Everybody is upset. The whole family is upset," Rutherford told Fox 32.

It's all fun and games until someone gets shot.