A 17-year-old boy was busted for allegedly sending emails about “killing Jews” to “multiple people” connected with his Queens charter school on Monday, cops and sources said.
The teen – who attended the Renaissance Charter School on 81st Street near 37th Avenue in Jackson Heights – allegedly sent his antisemitic screed to several people around 12:30 p.m., police said.
He was arrested about three hours later and charged with making terroristic threats and aggravated harassment as a hate crime, authorities said.
It was unclear whether the hateful messages were directed at students, faculty or both.
The 17-year-old Renaissance Charter School student allegedly sent messages about “killing Jews” to “multiple people” within the school, cops and sources said. Google Maps
The school serves students in pre-K through 12th grade and has been open since 1993, according to its website.
The arrest comes a day after the NYPD revealed that antisemitic hate crimes soared by 182% in January – accounting for more than half of all the bias incidents.
A total of 31 anti-Jewish crimes were reported last month, compared to just 11 reported to the NYPD in January of 2025, the newly released data show.
The suspects of those crimes included Dan Sohail, 36, a troubled New Jersey man who allegedly rammed his car into the iconic Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters in Crown Heights Wednesday night.
He was charged with attempted assault, criminal mischief and aggravated harassment — all as hate crimes — and has since been ordered held on $500,000 bond, authorities and prosecutors said.
A day earlier, Eric Zafra-Grosso, 32, allegedly sneered “F–k Jews” and pummeled a rabbi heading to his Queens synagogue on Holocaust Remembrance Day, according to authorities and prosecutors.
He was charged with two counts of assault – one as a hate crime – as well as aggravated harassment, prosecutors said.
Zafra-Grosso, who had no prior arrests, was granted supervised release over prosecutors’ request that he be held on $40,000 bail.