耶鲁大学肄业的21岁的资讯分析师余亭（Eric Ting Yee 音译）因在ESPN体育网站宣称他一直在观察小孩，而且不在意杀害他们，17日晚在洛杉矶县圣塔克拉利塔（Santa Clarita）的家中被捕。
耶鲁大学肄业的21岁的资讯分析师余亭（Eric Ting Yee 音译）因在ESPN体育网站宣称他一直在观察小孩，而且不在意杀害他们，17日晚在洛杉矶县圣塔克拉利塔（Santa Clarita）的家中被捕，保释金定为100万元。
余亭因提出恐怖威胁而接受调查。媒体报导余亭原在耶鲁大学主修经济，但今年5月因不明原因而退学，搬回家与父母同住。
警方搜查余亭家时发现数件武器，包括手枪和至少一枝火力强大的武器，使得威胁成立。ESPN网站13日有一篇以篮球明星詹姆斯（LeBron James）命名的耐吉新球鞋售价270元的新闻，余亭的威胁贴文登在读者回应栏。
近3000名读者讨论新鞋球昂贵，可能导致儿童为抢球鞋而被杀。但余亭谈到枪杀儿童的方式，类似今年7月科罗拉多州造成12人死亡、58人受伤的电影院滥射血案。
ESPN位于康州总部的一名员工同一天通知警方，警方查到贴文连到余亭位于加州圣塔克拉利塔的住家。
余亭在脸书的介绍说，他读过Valencia高中，是耶鲁大学显然成为享有盛名的“领导力学会”成员。他目前的住所俯瞰一所小学和初中。
当局未透露余亭的威胁有多严重，但正在调查余亭是否在网上曾提出类似威胁。目前没有迹象显示有其他人涉嫌。
警方在当地学校增派人手巡逻，校方也密切合作以解决问题。当地所有学校照常上课。
Eric Yee ESPN Death Threat Comments Land Ex-Yale Student In Jail On $1 Million Bail
LOS ANGELES ― A former Yale University student remained jailed on $1 million bail, an amount normally reserved for murder or other crimes that could result in life sentences, after authorities said he made online death threats to children.
Eric Yee, a 21-year-old who recently withdrew from the Ivy League university, posted on ESPN's website that he was watching children and wouldn't mind killing them, Los Angeles County sheriff's officials said.
Yee was taken into custody Monday at his parents' home, which is on a street that overlooks two schools in Santa Clarita, Calif. Several guns were found there.
Sheriff's Lt. Steve Low said Yee was arrested for investigation of making terrorist threats. Bail was set at $1 million because the threat involved children, his home's proximity to two schools and several unregistered weapons that have been recovered, Low said.He wouldn't say if there is any evidence whether Yee would make good on his threat, but experts said the bail amount was very high for a person suspected of making terrorist threats.
"To put it in perspective, $1 million is the presumptive bail for murder," said Hanni Fakhoury, an attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation and a former federal public defender who is not involved in the case. In comparison, the presumptive bail for making terrorist threats is $50,000 and it would take many specific circumstances to push it much higher, Fakhoury said.
Yee was arrested after the sports network ESPN reported threats were posted in a reader response section to an online story about new Nike sneakers named after LeBron James that cost $270 a pair. Some of the nearly 3,000 reader comments on the story talked about children possibly getting killed over the expensive sneakers, said ESPN spokesman Mike Soltys.
The post that led police to Yee referred to a shooting that would be like the one in Aurora, Colo., where 12 people were killed and 58 others were injured in July, authorities said.
"What he was posting had nothing to do with sports," Soltys said. "We closely monitor the message boards and anytime we get a threat, we're alerting law enforcement officials."
An employee at ESPN headquarters in Bristol, Conn., notified local police the same day and they linked the comments to the home of Yee's parents. Sheriff's investigators watched the home until they got a search warrant.
Yee and his family could not be reached for comment. His attorney, David Wallin, couldn't immediately talk about the case Wednesday.
Both schools near the home were open Tuesday, although at least three children didn't attend class after they were notified by the school about the arrest, said Dianne Saunders, principal of Santa Clarita Elementary School.
Authorities said they were looking at several computers to see if the suspect had made similar posts on the Internet. Investigators also were trying to determine who the guns belong to, Low said.
"We take all these kinds of threats serious, especially with the climate of other shootings around the nation over the past year," Low said.
Sheriff's investigators were working with Bristol police and police at Yale University, which said Yee was a student until he withdrew this May for undisclosed reasons. Yale officials said he had been expected to graduate with a bachelor's degree in economics this past spring.
A Yale website listed him as a member of its class of 2012 and a participant in a leadership training program.
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Associated Press writers David Collins and Michael Melia in Hartford, Conn., contributed to this report.
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