- Defendant
- Trevor Spring
- Reddit role
- user
- Charge
- Second-degree threatening
- Jurisdiction
- Connecticut Superior Court, New London
- Date
- 2019-12
Summary
Trevor Spring, of Stonington, Connecticut, was charged after New York police were tipped to a Reddit post in which he threatened to travel to Harlem and kill the teenage suspect in a widely covered murder, writing that he was 'armed and ready to fire.' A screenshot was captured before the post was deleted. Spring acknowledged making the post out of anger but said he had no weapons and no intent to act; Connecticut State Police charged him with second-degree threatening.