Woman Admits Faking Threat to Fellow Black Students
A former leader of a black student group pleaded guilty Monday to creating a false public alarm by tweeting anonymous threats against fellow black college students last fall.
State prosecutors will recommend that Kayla McKelvey be sentenced to 90 days in jail and that she pay restitution of about $82,000 to cover the costs of the police response and heightened security at Kean University after the threats.
According to prosecutors, the 25-year-old McKelvey tweeted threats from a campus library because she wanted more people to attend the Nov. 17, 2015, rally on racial issues. She then returned to the rally to tell people about the threats.
One tweet addressed to campus police read: “I will kill all the blacks tonight, tomorrow and any other day if they go to Kean University.”
This article appeared in print on page 72 of edition of Hamodia.
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