By M. Martin,
We need to celebrate the good news and heroes who help stop shootings. It was just a few years ago when Oregon was shocked over the Umpqua Community College shooting which killed eight innocent people. The same type of shooting almost happened at Oregon State University. A 911 tip helped lead police to a threatening Twitter account. That helped police find and stop Christopher Adam Strahan from carrying out his acts. Strahan has pled guilty.
Here is the official release from the US District Attorney office to tell the whole story:
Christopher Adam Strahan, 33, of Corvallis, Oregon, pleaded guilty to threatening a campus shooting and was sentenced to time served in federal prison and three years’ supervised release.
According to court documents, on February 27, 2018, the Director of Public Safety for Oregon State University (OSU) was notified of Twitter posts threatening a campus shooting at OSU. A request to Twitter revealed the account in question, “Hard Belly Dorm,” was owned by Strahan. A detective from Oregon State Police (OSP) positively identified Strahan from the account’s profile photo. The detective was familiar with Strahan from an investigation in February 2017 for similar threats to OSU.
Later on February 27, a 911 tip produced a possible residential address for Strahan. OSP and FBI responded to the address in an attempt to locate him. While at the address, Strahan arrived in his own vehicle, was arrested and transported to the Benton County Jail.
Strahan was held in the Benton County Jail from February 27 until he was ordered detained pending trial in federal court and transferred to FCI Sheridan on March 27, 2018.
As a condition of Strahan’s supervised release, he is prohibited from contacting or entering the property of Oregon State University or the Linn Benton Community College.
Strahan was previously convicted in Benton County Circuit Court of second degree disorderly conduct for Twitter threats made in February 2017. He was sentenced to 20 days in jail, civilly committed to the state mental hospital for six months and ordered to pay $438.
This case was investigated by OSP, the Corvallis Police Department and the FBI and prosecuted by Amy Potter, Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon.
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