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Cops: Florida Man With Weapons Cache Threatened Virginia Tech-Style Massacre
Thursday, April 03, 2008
MIAMI - A 20-year-old with a weapons cache that included four AK-47s was
arrested after threatening over the Internet to undertake a Virginia
Tech-style massacre, authorities said Thursday.
Oregon authorities learned of a March 25 Internet message allegedly posted
by Calin Chi Wong in which he threatened to re-enact the Virginia Tech
killings. Two days later, Homestead Police searched the home Wong shares
with his parents and found the weapons in stacked on shelves in plain view,
Detective Antonio Aquino said.
Wong had 13 firearms in all, more than 5,000 rounds of ammunition, some that
could pierce armor, and 100 rounds in a feeding clip with bullets "meant to
take down aircraft or military machinery," Aquino said. He had hidden two
AK-47s in his parents' closet, and his parents said the guns did not belong
to them, Aquino said.
Wong was charged with making written threats to kill or do bodily injury via
the computer and bonded out for $7,500. Additional charges are pending, he
said.
It was not known whether he had a lawyer. A message left by The Associated
Press at a phone number listed for Wong was not immediately returned
Thursday evening. The phone at his employer, China King, rang unanswered.
Homestead Police first noticed Wong when he went to the department in
February to complain he had been robbed of $800 over the Internet after he
ordered a gun online using his father's PayPal account.
He told authorities he had called the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
Firearms and Explosives, and other agencies about the issue. Aquino said
Wong finally reached a boiling point when he posted the message saying he
would re-enact the Virginia Tech massacre, in which student Seung-Hui Cho
killed 32 people last year before turning the gun on himself.
"After speaking to him and seeing his frustration, I believe that he had the
potential to carry out some kind of threat," Aquino said.
Wong felt isolated and cut off, authorities noted, saying he had been buying
and selling guns for about two years and word was now getting around about
Wong's age. Dealers stopped selling to him, and he was being banned from
certain gun-sale Web sites.
Aquino said Wong told police that making the threat made him feel good
because after "he had thousands of people on the Internet paying attention
to him."
Wong told police he was just upset and frustrated and never actually planned
a killing spree, Aquino said.
But authorities also found a school book bag lined with bulletproof vests
inside Wong's home, as well as two handguns.
Wong is not in college, Aquino said. He graduated from an Oregon high school
and attended a college for a year before moving in with his parents in
Florida, authorities said.
Wong said the weapons were an investment.
"He says it's a lucrative business," Aquino said. "He said if Hillary
Clinton wins she'll put a ban on assault rifles, and these assault rifles
will be worth more in value."
Cops: Florida Man With Weapons Cache Threatened Virginia Tech-Style Massacre
Thursday, April 03, 2008
MIAMI - A 20-year-old with a weapons cache that included four AK-47s was
arrested after threatening over the Internet to undertake a Virginia
Tech-style massacre, authorities said Thursday.
Oregon authorities learned of a March 25 Internet message allegedly posted
by Calin Chi Wong in which he threatened to re-enact the Virginia Tech
killings. Two days later, Homestead Police searched the home Wong shares
with his parents and found the weapons in stacked on shelves in plain view,
Detective Antonio Aquino said.
Wong had 13 firearms in all, more than 5,000 rounds of ammunition, some that
could pierce armor, and 100 rounds in a feeding clip with bullets "meant to
take down aircraft or military machinery," Aquino said. He had hidden two
AK-47s in his parents' closet, and his parents said the guns did not belong
to them, Aquino said.
Wong was charged with making written threats to kill or do bodily injury via
the computer and bonded out for $7,500. Additional charges are pending, he
said.
It was not known whether he had a lawyer. A message left by The Associated
Press at a phone number listed for Wong was not immediately returned
Thursday evening. The phone at his employer, China King, rang unanswered.
Homestead Police first noticed Wong when he went to the department in
February to complain he had been robbed of $800 over the Internet after he
ordered a gun online using his father's PayPal account.
He told authorities he had called the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
Firearms and Explosives, and other agencies about the issue. Aquino said
Wong finally reached a boiling point when he posted the message saying he
would re-enact the Virginia Tech massacre, in which student Seung-Hui Cho
killed 32 people last year before turning the gun on himself.
"After speaking to him and seeing his frustration, I believe that he had the
potential to carry out some kind of threat," Aquino said.
Wong felt isolated and cut off, authorities noted, saying he had been buying
and selling guns for about two years and word was now getting around about
Wong's age. Dealers stopped selling to him, and he was being banned from
certain gun-sale Web sites.
Aquino said Wong told police that making the threat made him feel good
because after "he had thousands of people on the Internet paying attention
to him."
Wong told police he was just upset and frustrated and never actually planned
a killing spree, Aquino said.
But authorities also found a school book bag lined with bulletproof vests
inside Wong's home, as well as two handguns.
Wong is not in college, Aquino said. He graduated from an Oregon high school
and attended a college for a year before moving in with his parents in
Florida, authorities said.
Wong said the weapons were an investment.
"He says it's a lucrative business," Aquino said. "He said if Hillary
Clinton wins she'll put a ban on assault rifles, and these assault rifles
will be worth more in value."
