Former College Student Sentenced for Online Death Threats to Jewish Students

The 22-year-old threatened to shoot up Jewish student dining hall, bomb housing. A 22-year-old former Cornell University student was sentenced on Aug. 12 to 21 months in prison and three years of supervised release for posting online threats to Jewish students, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Patrick Dai, formerly a junior at Cornell University and originally from Pittsford, New York, previously entered a guilty plea and admitted to posting threatening messages on Oct. 28 and 29 of 2023. Dai admitted he posted messages in a Cornell section of...