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<\/p>\nAuthorities have charged a San Jos\u00e9 State graduate student for allegedly posting a hateful and threatening message in a campus bathroom. <\/p>\n
Jul 14, 2026<\/p>\n
Updated 1:20 pm PT<\/p>\n
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Students walk on campus at San Jos\u00e9 State University on April 3, 2025.\u00a0(Gina Castro\/KQED)<\/p>\n
Federal prosecutors have charged a San Jos\u00e9 State University graduate student for allegedly posting a \u201chateful and threatening\u201d message in a school bathroom last fall, and have linked him to a string of other similar postings and graffiti scrawls at the campus.<\/p>\n
Authorities say Ziheng \u201cTony\u201d Fang, 30, of San Jos\u00e9, wrote on a piece of paper \u201c!Warning! Mass Bomb Next Week,\u201d as well as \u201cKill all Muslims and [Chinese people],\u201d while using a slur to describe Chinese people.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The page was placed in a plastic cover sheet and taped to the bathroom wall of a men\u2019s restroom on the campus before it was discovered on Nov. 5, 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The page also had swastikas drawn on it, \u201cMAGA 2028,\u201d and \u201cKill Zohran,\u201d in an apparent reference to then-New York City Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani, along with the sentence, \u201cThis is a white nation.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Another message on the wall of the bathroom was found at the same time, also calling for the killing of Muslims and Chinese people, as well as Jewish and Mexican people, and added possible dates of violence with the words, \u201cMass bombing 11\/11 and 11\/12 guess.\u201d<\/p>\n
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San Jos\u00e9 State University\u2019s Washington Square Hall located in downtown San Jos\u00e9. <\/p>\n
The U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the Northern District of California alleged Fang\u2019s fingerprint was found on the paper, which serves as the basis for one charge of spreading false information and hoaxes that indicated a bombing would take place. If convicted, he could face up to five years in prison, along with a fine of up to $250,000, authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe incidents of graffiti containing threats of violence, along with antisemitic, Islamophobic, racial and other discriminatory slurs against members of our campus community, caused real fear and harmed every member of the San Jos\u00e9 State Spartan community,\u201d Michelle Smith McDonald, a spokesperson for the school, said in an emailed statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cOur Jewish and Muslim students, faculty and staff experienced these hateful acts in deeply personal ways,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Fang was a graduate student at SJSU, pursuing a master\u2019s degree in data science. Smith McDonald said Fang is currently banned from campus, but could not share information about his academic status due to student privacy laws.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He was arrested last week and is being held in federal custody. He appeared in federal court in San Jos\u00e9 on July 10 and July 13, and is scheduled for a detention hearing on Thursday. His attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
In an affidavit supporting the criminal complaint, an FBI special agent said the school\u2019s police department has recorded more than twenty \u201csimilar hateful and threatening messages written in men\u2019s and gender-neutral restrooms around the SJSU campus\u201d from Oct. 24, 2024 through May 14 of this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The FBI and SJSU IT department also installed surveillance cameras outside of some campus restrooms in March. Following the installation of the cameras, four more threatening or hateful messages were discovered on campus.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In three of those instances, Fang was seen \u201centering and exiting the restrooms or restroom areas where the messages were written up to a day before their discovery,\u201d the affidavit said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In an interview with campus police on May 20, Fang agreed he was in the buildings where these incidents took place, but told officers \u201che did not know anything about how the graffiti got there or who was doing it,\u201d the affidavit said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities have charged a San Jos\u00e9 State graduate student for allegedly posting a hateful and threatening message in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-398752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398752","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=398752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}