Man charged over US death threats (From Herald Series)
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Man charged over US death threats
9:53am Saturday 9th February 2013 in National News © Press Association 2013
A British man has been charged with threatening to kill after allegedly posting on Facebook he would kill 200 people
A 24-year-old man has been charged with threatening to kill after allegedly posting on Facebook he would kill 200 people in America.
Reece Elliott, 24, from South Shields, South Tyneside has also been charged with making malicious communications, which led to thousands of pupils staying home from school, Northumbria Police said.
According to reports, the post was made anonymously on an online memorial page, set up for a Tennessee student who died in October.
That led schools in Warren County, Tennessee, to tighten security, with limited access to premises.
