A local college student who failed an exam is accused of threatening to shoot his professor in that class.
The 20-year-old Springfield man, who is a student at Northern Virginia Community College’s Annandale campus, was arrested April 18 after bombarding his math professor with numerous intimidating emails, according to court documents.
“I will shoot you in the m———–g head and I don’t give a f–k,” one of the emails said.
The student allegedly sent his professor five different emails on April 17-18, according to court documents.
In the first email, the student apologized to his professor for using his phone in order to cheat on the exam — a decision for which “I accept the consequences” the student allegedly wrote.
But then, the tone of the emails quickly escalated.
“You are a b—-h and … I want to kill you and beat your ass,” the student wrote in the second email, timestamped at 1:58 p.m.
The student emailed his professor again around 8:47 that night, followed by another email at 8:59 p.m.
The last email — in which the student threatened to shoot the professor — was sent at 11:52 a.m. on April 18, according to court documents. The student was arrested by law enforcement later that day.
The student has been charged with one count of making written threats, which is a felony. He faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison if convicted.
He is next scheduled to appear in Fairfax General District Court for a preliminary hearing on July 15, according to court records.
