ALEXANDRIA, Va. – An Alexandria man was sentenced to 33 months in prison for threatening to murder African-Americans at Howard University, a historically black university in Washington, D.C.
According to court documents, on the night of Nov. 11, 2015, John Edgar Rust, 27, entered a restaurant in Alexandria, connected his laptop computer and phone to the store’s wireless Internet connection, and posted a threat online to murder African-Americans at Howard University the next day. He posted a statement on another Internet bulletin board several minutes later, under the user name “watchouthoward,” that linked to his first post. He ended the post by saying “After all, it’s not murder if they’re black.”
He was on probation at the time for committing another crime.
