‘I am going to kill everyone’: Man in S. Korea who posed as police nabbed over mass stabbing threat
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The suspect wrote in an anonymous post that he plans to go on a stabbing rampage near Exit No. 1 of Gangnam Station.
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SEOUL - An office worker in his 30s was apprehended on Tuesday, a day after writing an anonymous post as a police employee on a popular online platform declaring that he would commit a mass stabbing near Exit No. 1 of Gangnam Station in Seoul.
The suspect was caught near his home at around 8.30am on Tuesday, said the National Police Agency. The suspect is accused of writing a post on Blind, an online community and forum for verified employees.
“I’m going on a mass stabbing at Gangnam Station Exit No. 1,” the post read. “Put yourself on guard. I’m going to kill everyone.”
The post was deleted almost immediately, but went viral online as a screen capture.
It also caused more of a stir compared with other murder threats, as it was written by a user presumed to be an active police employee. This prompted National Police Agency Commissioner General Yoon Hee-keun to order a swift investigation.
However, police officials said the suspect was never a police employee.
It is unclear how the suspect signed up for Blind as a National Police Agency employee, as users must verify themselves through their workplace e-mail when creating an account.
Blind allows all users to post anonymously, but they have to include information that reveals their workplace.
Screen captures of the posts that the suspect wrote previously have also gone viral online.
One of his posts read: “Is anyone willing to take nude pictures of me? I like feeling humiliated.”
Another post of his said: “Let’s be friends and I’ll give you 200,000 won (S$203). I’m handsome and nice and will pay for everything we do together.”
The police are investigating and are considering charging him with impersonating a public worker. THE KOREA HERALD/ASIA NEWS NETWORK
