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Follow up: student who claimed bomb/anthrax is from India
A graduate student whose bomb and anthrax threats shutdown the University of Missouri-Rolla was charged Wednesday with making terrorist threats and assaulting a law enforcement officer, the county prosecutor said. The student, 22-year-old Sujithkumar Venkatramolla,Calling all experts! Muslim name or not? Is this kind of thing becoming an optional attention-getting behaviour for distraught young adults, analogous to attempting suicide by pills? was arrested on campus early Tuesday after walking into a civil engineering building armed with a knife, holding paper bag and saying he had a bomb and anthrax, according to authorities. Police eventually subdued him with a stun gun after he refused to drop the knife, interim Police Chief Mark Kearse said. Kearse said the student was depressed and apparently distraught over grades. The bomb and anthrax threats were determined to be phony. Extensive searches of the campus building Tuesday found no trace of explosives, and preliminary tests showed that a white, powdery substance found on the man was nothing more than powdered sugar, said Lt. Col. David Boyle of the Missouri National Guard at Fort Leonard Wood. Venkatramolla was charged Wednesday with armed criminal action, resisting arrest, false report of a bomb threat, making terrorist threats, and first-degree assault of a law enforcement officer, said Phelps County prosecutor Courtney George. Venkatramolla, a civil engineering student, is from Nazambad, India, university spokeswoman Mary Helen Stoltz said. She was not aware of any previous disciplinary issues. Posted by: trailing wife 2007-02-28 |
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