Video : Patrick Dai, 21-year-old engineering student, arrested

A 21-year-old student was arrested Tuesday for making “horrifying” anti-Semitic death threats at Cornell University, putting the Ivy League campus on alert over the weekend.

Patrick Dai, an engineering student at the prestigious university, has been named in a federal complaint accusing him of posting threats to kill or harm others using peer-to-peer communications.

state – which could result in him receiving a prison sentence that could last up to five years.
The Pittsford, New York native was formally charged just hours after New York State troopers identified a person of interest in online threats as ‘bringing an assault rifle onto campus’ school”.

The disturbing messages, which appeared days after “F-k Israel” graffiti was scrawled on the sidewalk of the suburban Ithaca campus, were revealed by university officials on Sunday.