infexxionGamelife Host Arrested Over Threatening Emails
The Boston Herald reports today that Andrew Rosenblum, host of the indie video review show Gamelife, has been arrested by Boston Police for sending an e-mail to his ex-girlfriend and threatening to recreate the recent killings at the Virginia Tech campus.
"(I)'m gonna (expletive) bring a gun to your school and kill you and K (another female student) and everybody you love. It's gonna be VT all over again," 20-year-old Andrew Rosenblum allegedly wrote in an e-mail to the victim just hours after 32 people were gunned at Virginia Tech.
"Seriously I'm just that demented," Rosenblum wrote, according to a BPD report. He ended the message with a threat to commit homicide and suicide: "killing people can change people's lives forever. (T)he best is in the end when I pull the trigger on myself, too."
No charges have been filed, but an investigation is currently ongoing. The police report details that the ex-girlfriend in question was a 19-year-old woman Rosenblum went on three dates with earlier in the school year. The relationship had broken off, Rosenblum allegedly started harassing her, resulting in the quoted e-mails above. The girl printed and saved the e-mails before phoning a 911 call to report the incident.
And here's a brief morality warning, too. Whatever you think of the kids on Gamelife, be respectful. It's easy to forget everyone affected by this are actually people, and just because their message boards, e-mails and screen names are floating around, that doesn't open them up to the kind of harassment the Internet's usually so good at. Be cool, as that kind of commentary will not be tolerated below.
