PHILADELPHIA – United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced that Matthew Gabriel, 25, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty before United States District Court Judge Timothy J. Savage to two counts of interstate and foreign communication of a threat to injure.
According to the guilty plea agreement, the defendant had an online disagreement with a member of his fantasy football chat group. Gabriel learned that the member with whom he had a disagreement was going to study abroad in Norway in August of 2023. On August 3, 2023, Gabriel, while located in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, submitted an anonymous “tip” through the internet to the Norwegian Police Security Service, also known as Politiets Sikkerhetstjeneste (“PST”), claiming that a member of his fantasy football chat group was going to carry out a mass shooting in Norway:
On August 15th a man named [Victim 1] is headed around oslo and has a shooting planned with multiple people on his side involved. they plan to take as many as they can at a concert and then head to a department store. I don’t know any more people then that, I just can’t have random people dying on my conscience. he plans to arrive there unarmed spend a couple days normal and then execute the attack. please be ready. he is around a 5 foot 7 read head coming from America, on the 10th or 11th I believe. he should have weapons with him. please be careful
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According to the guilty plea agreement, the defendant had an online disagreement with a member of his fantasy football chat group. Gabriel learned that the member with whom he had a disagreement was going to study abroad in Norway in August of 2023. On August 3, 2023, Gabriel, while located in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, submitted an anonymous “tip” through the internet to the Norwegian Police Security Service, also known as Politiets Sikkerhetstjeneste (“PST”), claiming that a member of his fantasy football chat group was going to carry out a mass shooting in Norway:
On August 15th a man named [Victim 1] is headed around oslo and has a shooting planned with multiple people on his side involved. they plan to take as many as they can at a concert and then head to a department store. I don’t know any more people then that, I just can’t have random people dying on my conscience. he plans to arrive there unarmed spend a couple days normal and then execute the attack. please be ready. he is around a 5 foot 7 read head coming from America, on the 10th or 11th I believe. he should have weapons with him. please be careful
'Definitely not smart': Philadelphia man pleads guilty to making mass shooting threat following fantasy football beef
Matthew Gabriel, 25, pleaded guilty to two counts of interstate and foreign communication of a threat to injure.
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