'Definitely not smart': Philadelphia man pleads guilty after making mass shooting threat following fantasy football beef
A Philadelphia man admitted to reporting a hoax mass shooting and then a bomb threat in retaliation over a fantasy football argument, authorities said Wednesday.
A Philadelphia man admitted to reporting a hoax mass shooting and then a bomb threat in retaliation over a fantasy football argument, authorities said Wednesday.
Matthew Gabriel, 25, could face up to five years behind bars after he pleaded guilty to two counts of interstate and foreign communication of a threat to injure, the U.S. States Attorney's Office in Philadelphia said.
But it's more likely that Gabriel, a house painter, will get 15 months of home confinement when he's sentenced in January, according to the man's defense attorney Lonny Fish.
The lawyer said he remains baffled by his client’s actions.
“I don’t know what he was thinking,” Fish told NBC News on Thursday. “It was definitely not smart.”
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