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ELIZABETH -- A recent Kean graduate has been charged with being responsible for a series of tweets threatening black students at the school two weeks ago, acting Union County Prosecutor Grace H. Park announced Tuesday.
Kayla-Simone McKelvey, 24, of Union - a black alum who graduated in May - was charged by summons with third-degree creating a false public alarm.
Kean President Dawood Farahi spoke to students Tuesday afternoon during a previously planned campus discussion at the student center.
He called the tweets a "heinous crime" and said, "We are saddened the person allegedly responsible was an active participant (of the demonstration) and a former student. No cause, no cause, can give anybody the right to threaten others."
The investigation also revealed that there was never any plan to harm students, the prosecutor's office said.
McKelvey's first court appearance has been scheduled for Dec. 14.
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