Gun-toting Taiwanese exchange student Sun An-tso pleads guilty to US school shooting threat, will be deported
‘During my time in prison, there was not one day where I [did] not regret what I did’
A Taiwanese exchange student accused of threatening a shooting at his high school near Philadelphia was sentenced to four to 23 months in prison but a judge ordered immediate parole to federal authorities for deportation.
School authorities were alerted in March that he talked about a May 1 shooting at Monsignor Bonner and Archbishop Prendergast High School, warning a friend not to come to school that day.
Sun called it a joke, but prosecutors said he had several parts of a 9mm handgun that a detective was able to assemble and fire along with two loaded 9mm magazines, a crossbow and a ballistic vest from his host family. Prosecutors also said he had researched how to buy weapons.
“Even a person in the defendant’s position, having been in the country since September, had to know that you cannot joke about school shootings,” Deputy District Attorney Daniel McDevitt said.