OXFORD, Miss. (AP) - A man who pleaded guilty to making threats against Oxford High School has been scheduled for sentencing on March 6.
Prosecutors say Joshua Brandon Pillault made the threats in a chat room for an online medieval fantasy and role-playing strategy game called “Runescape.” Another player reported the threats in October 2012.
Pillault pleaded guilty in June.
Pillault’s lawyer, Roy Percy, has said in court records that Pillault made the comments, but described them as “idle or careless talk, exaggeration or something said in a joking manner.”
Sentencing is set to take place in U.S. District Court in Oxford.
Prosecutors said Pillault had researched how to make bombs, the 1999 Columbine High School shooting and serial killers, according to court records.
Pillault told the FBI agent he didn’t remember making the online threats because he was drunk, though he “admitted that he probably wrote the threatening statements,” according to court documents.
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