Dive Brief:
- A University of Washington student was arrested Monday after threatening to kill women on campus.
- The suspect, Keshav Bhide, 23, used YouTube and Google+ to praise Elliot Rodger, the University of California-Santa Barbara student who killed six people and himself last month.
- Bhide, who was being held on $150,001 bail after a Monday court hearing, was tracked by FBI agents through his screen name to an apartment near the University of Washington.
Dive Insight:
Bhide was arrested Saturday, and is being held for investigation of cyberstalking and felony harassment, with charges expected this week, according to KIROTV.com. He was expected to graduate this year. It is not known if Bhide is connected to anonymous threats to University of Washington sororities that referenced the Rodger shootings, or to chalk outlines that were also left outside some sororities. Bhide said in his online messages that he would kill women, and “execute the same thing” as Rodger.
