A 21-year-old Mississippi man has been sentenced to more than three years in federal prison for threatening to rape and shoot people on Snapchat, prosecutors said.
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In May and July 2020, then-18-year-old Christian Blake Bunyard used social media apps to threaten to commit a school shooting, kill and rape a Black man in Oxford, Mississippi, and provide nude photos. He told the court that if he did not do so, he would rape another Snapchat user. Documents and statements made in court have come to light.
This illustrated photo taken on February 7, 2024 in Krakow, Poland, shows a laptop keyboard and the Snapchat logo displayed on a mobile phone screen. (Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Bunyard, of Lauderdale County, Mississippi, was indicted in November 2020. He pleaded guilty in April 2021 to charges of interstate commerce intimidation and interstate transmission of unlawful communications, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Mississippi announced in a news release. Released on Monday.
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Mr. Bunyard received a total of 41 months in prison in the case, according to prosecutors.
