ROANOKE, Va. — A Las Vegas man was charged Thursday with sending e-mail threats to two Virginia Tech alumni on the eve of the first anniversary of the university’s mass shootings.
Johnmarlo Balasta Napa, 27, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Roanoke, said Brian McGinn, a spokesman for U.S. Attorney Julia C. Dudley.
According to the indictment, e-mails were sent to the university accounts of two former students from an address named “seunghuichorevenge.” Seung Hui Cho was the student who killed 32 students and faculty members, then took his own life on April 16, 2007.
McGinn said he couldn’t disclose the content of the messages, but “the language of the e-mails made the people who received them feel that they could get harmed.” The two alumni didn’t know Napa, and authorities have found no link between him and Virginia Tech.
