CHINESE MAFIA!!

The end result of this situation forced me to write a police report to detail the story. Here is the police report I wrote up at 3 in the morning the night of the incident (and I have added some comments).

Yesterday, January 3, 2011, James (roommate) told me that his professor accused him of being involved in a cheating incident. He was very confused and told me that initially he had no idea of what was going on, so he talked with the professor to ask him what was going on. The professor sent James an email showing him the emails he and the other cheater (another guy from China) sent to the professor. James had no recollection of sending this email that was just shown to him and James told me that the other cheater found out James’ email username and password and logged on as James and sent an email to the Professor telling him that James was responsible for the cheating and then he also sent an email from his own email account to the professor saying that he was innocent. (see email documents) I was very confused myself and was confident that the University would work something out with James to prove that he was innocent.

Today, January 4, 2011, between 5 and 8 pm, James walked into the dorm room, I asked him how he was doing and he said that things JUST GOT A LOT WORSE. He said that the cheater kid talked to him and GRABBED HIM BY THE NECK and told James that if he did not confess to cheating to the professor in 24 hours, he will either kill James (by stabbing him with a KNIFE) or commit suicide in James’ bed (3FT AWAY FROM MY BED!! KIND OF FREAKY). 

I really didn’t want this situation turning bad (resulting in DEATH), so I talked to a buddy of mine about what I should do about the situation and we contemplated calling the police because we thought someone’s life was in jeopardy, but we ended up waiting about 30 minutes to talk to our RA (Austin) to see what he had to say about the situation. At that point, James was scared (like he should be). At some point in the conversation, Austin and I both thought that we should call the police.

We approached James and let him know that we were going to call the police because we didn't want a Virginia Tech situation on our hands. James immediately interrupted us and said that we couldn't call the POLICE! "Why?" we asked. APPARENTLY THIS KID'S FAMILY IS HIGHLY INVOLVED IN THE CHINESE MAFIA AND JAMES FELT WORRIED FOR THE SAFETY OF HIM AND HIS FAMILY back home if the kid found out that we were trying to get him in trouble.

Well, I guess we can't really call the police now..... shoot!

A few minutes later, the kid called James again and demanded that they meet again in our room immediately.  I set up a video camera in the corner of our room, then left the room for them to speak with each other. When I came back to our room, the kid was gone and James was already talking with Austin and a different RA. The video tape (according to James’ translation) showed that James was cornered in the room and the kid was demanding 100,000 dollars from James’ father and then he would leave James alone. James originally told him that he will not pay him the money and the kid stormed out of the room and apparently said, in Chinese, ”I will see you in China”. James later called his dad again and explained how the kid just demanded money in order for James to be safe. James' dad then told him that he should say that he will give the kid the money (but not actually do it) in order for James to be safe.  James told me that he did as his dad said and offered the kid the money.

On January 5, 2011, at about 2:00 am, everyone involved except for the kid, gathered in a room and discussed everything that happened with Campus Safety.  Campus Safety immediately recommended that James get the Police involved as soon as possible. Though still a bit hesitant, fearing for his family back home, he wanted the police to get involved. The police arrived and James filed a report. The CRAZY kid was sent to the hospital (because of his suicide threat).

I decided to go to sleep in a friend's room for the night just because I felt more comfortable there. I woke up around 9:00 AM and did my normal morning routine. I later found out from a few of my floor mates that James came out of our room with a bloody nose and a cut on his forehead. I was also told by one of my floor mates that there were two policemen standing outside of our door in the morning. James later told me that he fell out of his bed (which gave him the injuries).

WHAT IS HAPPENING!! AHHHH!!