Chicago Ill. Feb 18 2008 A Cook County judge set bond at $75,000 Sunday for a University of Illinois at Chicago student who allegedly sent e-mails threatening a “mass shooting” to three UIC administrators.
Mahtab Shirani, 24, faces charges of felony disorderly conduct for the Feb. 15 e-mails, sent one day after a Northern Illinois University shooting massacre that claimed six lives.
“This e-mail sent threats that a mass shooting was going to occur somewhere on campus during the spring semester of 2008,” said Assistant State’s Attorney Melanie Fialkowski. “The defendant wrote four times in the e-mail that it was not a joke.”
Shirani logged on to a UIC computer at 1:14 p.m. Feb. 15 at a campus building in the 700 block of South Halsted, Fialkowski said.
At 2:36 p.m., she sent an e-mail saying, ” ‘I am aiming to kill as many as I can . . . after NIU, it’s UIC’s turn to face disaster,’” according to Fialkowski.
After campus police were notified, investigators traced the e-mail and identified Shirani’s user ID. Investigators also identified the computer where the e-mail originated as one on the campus building’s fourth floor, Fialkowski said. Video surveillance showed Shirani leaving the fourth floor lab, she added.
Shirani signed a handwritten statement to UIC campus police that she wrote and sent the e-mail, Fialkowski said.Shirani, of the 2000 block of West Roosevelt in Wheaton, faces one to three years in prison if convicted.
Mahtab Shirani, 24, faces charges of felony disorderly conduct for the Feb. 15 e-mails, sent one day after a Northern Illinois University shooting massacre that claimed six lives.
“This e-mail sent threats that a mass shooting was going to occur somewhere on campus during the spring semester of 2008,” said Assistant State’s Attorney Melanie Fialkowski. “The defendant wrote four times in the e-mail that it was not a joke.”
Shirani logged on to a UIC computer at 1:14 p.m. Feb. 15 at a campus building in the 700 block of South Halsted, Fialkowski said.
At 2:36 p.m., she sent an e-mail saying, ” ‘I am aiming to kill as many as I can . . . after NIU, it’s UIC’s turn to face disaster,’” according to Fialkowski.
After campus police were notified, investigators traced the e-mail and identified Shirani’s user ID. Investigators also identified the computer where the e-mail originated as one on the campus building’s fourth floor, Fialkowski said. Video surveillance showed Shirani leaving the fourth floor lab, she added.
Shirani signed a handwritten statement to UIC campus police that she wrote and sent the e-mail, Fialkowski said.Shirani, of the 2000 block of West Roosevelt in Wheaton, faces one to three years in prison if convicted.
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