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Police: How Syracuse University student was stopped while planning mass shooting
Syracuse.com ^ | 4/5/18 | Douglass Dowty

Posted on 04/06/2018 6:29:47 AM PDT by jalisco555

Syracuse, NY -- A Syracuse University student, who had stockpiled ammunition and gun accessories in his downtown apartment, was stopped before carrying out threats of a mass shooting, city police revealed today.

Xiaoteng Zhan, 22, was deported back to China by federal agents March 20 as he returned to Syracuse from spring break in Mexico, Syracuse Deputy Police Chief Derek McGork said.

Zhan told a friend that the "dark side" had pushed him to buy a gun, bulletproof vest and other items, McGork said, reading from an English translation of their messages.

"I might use the gun to cause trouble," Zhan said, adding, "I have been preparing."

When his alarmed friend begged him not to shoot children or kill her, Zhan responded: "You're the only one I don't want to kill."

(Excerpt) Read more at syracuse.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: aliens; china; foreignstudents; schoolshooting; shooting; syracuse; syracuseu
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1 posted on 04/06/2018 6:29:47 AM PDT by jalisco555
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Deported? How long will it take him to sneak back in?


2 posted on 04/06/2018 6:31:47 AM PDT by Russ
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OK, so who has the gun? Was there actually a gun? An AR 15 is still out there thinking about it?


3 posted on 04/06/2018 6:35:22 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (Damn Tag line, fouled up again, thanks cursor.)
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To: Russ

It’s a little harder to sneak in from China than from Mexico.


4 posted on 04/06/2018 6:35:29 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: jalisco555

Sounds like a DACA dreamer to me.

We need to send these little nightmares back home


5 posted on 04/06/2018 6:36:41 AM PDT by Trump.Deplorable
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Syracuse University has as huge population of Chinese students, somewhere around 1,500 at any one time.


6 posted on 04/06/2018 6:41:51 AM PDT by jalisco555 ("In a Time of Universal Deceit Telling the Truth Is a Revolutionary Act" - George Orwell)
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To: jalisco555
noting that Zhan was not a U.S. citizen but was here legally on a student visa. ... which allowed him to possess a gun as a non-citizen
That should be changed ASAP.
7 posted on 04/06/2018 6:43:12 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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Yet another person who is very lucky to not be a US citizen.


8 posted on 04/06/2018 6:49:23 AM PDT by posterchild
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Should tourists be allowed to possess a gun?


9 posted on 04/06/2018 6:50:08 AM PDT by posterchild
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"...deported to China..."


At least we know this potential killer is likely in prison or dead now.

10 posted on 04/06/2018 6:52:11 AM PDT by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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Deported? How long will it take him to sneak back in?

If the Chinese don't send him back to make trouble, they'll send him back to the organ re-processing factory.

11 posted on 04/06/2018 6:56:23 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine ("Married with children.")
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This is a very strange story......Chinese and Mexican ties. Student who openly says he wants to kill people

Some details seem to be left out.....was he hospitalized? How long in Mexico? Are his friends in Mexico still there? Syracuse quickly expels him? How does that work? Johnny on the spot with visa revocation? That’s unusual. Immediately deported?? That’s really unusual

Something about this doesn’t smell right


12 posted on 04/06/2018 6:58:06 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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Should tourists be allowed to possess a gun?
Sure, if they're US citizens.
13 posted on 04/06/2018 6:59:03 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Not any more

Chinese have been coming in through Mexico in droves over the last five or so years. Used to be Canada. That’s changed


14 posted on 04/06/2018 6:59:48 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: oh8eleven

What about non US citizens coming to the US on hunting trips?


15 posted on 04/06/2018 7:03:20 AM PDT by posterchild
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I assume the Mexico angle only had to do with spring break. I’m just glad everyone acted quickly to get the guy out of the country.


16 posted on 04/06/2018 7:04:50 AM PDT by jalisco555 ("In a Time of Universal Deceit Telling the Truth Is a Revolutionary Act" - George Orwell)
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See, see! Them bump stocks again! NRA has blood on their hands!


17 posted on 04/06/2018 7:09:30 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Democracy: The cliff's edge of Marxism)
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“the dark side”? He had a call from sanfran nan?


18 posted on 04/06/2018 7:13:40 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: posterchild

You read my post, you do the math.


19 posted on 04/06/2018 7:20:05 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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Those high tuition rates are a mofo.


20 posted on 04/06/2018 7:34:53 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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