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A man jogs past Tower Hall on the San Jose State University campus after the school announced a partnership with Udacity in San Jose, Calif. on Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013, to offer online courses. The pilot program will begin this semester with two math <\/p>\n
SAN JOSE, Calif. – The Justice Department on Monday announced the arrest of a 30-year-old San Jose man on a federal charge of false information and hoaxes.<\/p>\n
Court documents allege that Zihen “Tony” Fang, wrote a hateful and threatening message placed in a plastic cover sheet taped to the bathroom wall of a men\u2019s restroom at the San Jose State University campus. Fang is a graduate student at the school, pursuing a master\u2019s degree in Data Science.<\/p>\n
What we know:<\/p>\n
The message,\u00a0which was discovered<\/a> on Nov. 5 of last year, featured drawings of swastikas and read in part, “Warning! Mass bomb next week. Eat pigs not dogs.” The note included a racial slur against Chinese people and called for violence against Muslims and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. It described America as a “white nation,” and included the phrases “MAGA 2028” and “No on 50.”<\/p>\n Investigators found Fang\u2019s fingerprint on the paper.<\/p>\n A second message, found on the same wall at the same time, called for people to kill minorities, including Jews, Muslims, Mexicans and Chinese people, and used a slur for the latter group. It also threatened a “mass bombing 11\/11 and 11\/12 guess.”<\/p>\n San Jose State Univ. officials on Wednesday said they’re searching for a suspect who wrote a threat of campus violence over three days on a bathroom wall in MacQuarrie Hall. Some classes have been canceled and others switched to on-line as the campus community reacted to the disturbing development.<\/p>\n The backstory:<\/p>\n The complaint alleges that since October 2024, SJSU police officers have recorded over 20 instances of hateful and threatening messages written in men\u2019s and gender-neutral restrooms around the school\u2019s campus.<\/p>\n Many of the messages include threats of violence on a specific date, as well as weapons and methods that would be used, such as bombs, knives and guns.<\/p>\n The most recent threat was discovered on\u00a0May 14 of this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n Dig deeper:<\/p>\n Investigators determined that Fang had, in 16 of 18 cases where a threatening message was discovered, accessed the building where the note was found. Those buildings can only be accessed by a key card.<\/p>\n A second person had accessed the same buildings nearly the same number of times, but they were an SJSU staff member who worked with facilities, and had a reason to be in each building.<\/p>\n Surveillance video also showed Fang, in the days prior to the discovery of a note, entering and exiting the areas where some of the messages were discovered.<\/p>\n Local perspective:<\/p>\n The complaint states the SJSU President\u2019s Office provided email and text message alerts to notify students and staff before dates that attacks were threatened to take place.<\/p>\n Upon alerts being issued, professors decided for themselves whether to hold class remotely or cancel it entirely.<\/p>\n University police and school administrators received numerous calls from people worried about coming to campus because of the threats. The campus buildings were, according to the complaint, a “ghost town,” on those days.<\/p>\n What’s next:<\/p>\n Fang is being held in federal custody and is next scheduled to appear in federal court on July 13.<\/p>\n The Source: The United States Department of Justice, previous KTVU reporting<\/p>\n San Jose State<\/a>News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article A man jogs past Tower Hall on the San Jose State University campus after the school announced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[1821,15,100,88,90,89,6567],"class_list":["post-397589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-csu","tag-education","tag-news","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-sj-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"SJSU](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/xolsh7nlu4f30hqs.jpg\")
SJSU police investigating violence threat, racist graffiti in bathroom<\/a> <\/p>\n