An aspiring US based Nigerian rapper, Olutosin Oduwole, has been sentenced to five years in prison over a note threatening a killing spree ...
An aspiring US based Nigerian rapper, Olutosin Oduwole, has been sentenced to five years in prison over a note threatening a killing spree unless ransom was paid.
The 26-year-old former Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville student however claimed the note was only his rap lyrics.
Madison County Circuit Judge, Richard Tognarelli who handed out the judgement, however agreed with the Jury that convicted Oduwole in October and also sentenced him to 364 days and a thousand Dollar fine for having a loaded gun on campus.
Oduwole was arrested after police found a note in his abandoned car, just months after the infamous Virginia Tech shooting that left 32 dead including the gunman.
The note demanded payment into a PayPal account, stating ‘if this account doesn’t reach $50,000 in the next 7 days, then a murderous rampage similar to the VT shooting will occur at another highly populated University. THIS IS NOT A JOKE!‘
After his sentencing, Oduwole who got ten years less than what prosecution initially requested, also pleaded guilty to felony charges of theft and computer fraud for an online sale of a gun he didn’t have. He is to serve a two-and-a-half-year probation on that charge to be served with his prison term.
