BOTH ON AND OFF MIAMI UNIVERSITY’S CAMPUS, BUT HIS FRATERNITY BROTHERS SAY HE DID IS CONCERNING. >> ALARMING, THIS IS ALARMIN >> I JUST HAVEN’T HEARD OF ANYTHING QUITE THAT DRAMATIC HAPPENING HERE. TODD: SATURDAY, THREE MEMBERS OF THE SIGMA ALPHA PHI FRATERNITY WENT TO THE OXFORD POLICE DEPARTMENT.
THEY TOLD AN OFFICER THAT LAST WEEK WHEN WALLACE WAS STILL PART OF THE BROTHERHOOD HE THREATENED TO KILL ANOTHER MEMBER, AFTER KICKING AND CHOKING HIM. WALLACE THEN ALLEGEDLY SENT TEXT MESSAGES SAYING HE’D CREATED A HIT LIST OF MEMBERS HE DOESN’T LIKE AND THREATENED TO BURN DOWN THIS HOUSE ON EAST CHURCH STREET.
>> BECAUSE OF THE SPECIFICITY OF THE THREATS AND THE WORDS AND THE TERMS THAT WERE USED THAT BOTHERED M TODD: OXFORD POLICE ARRESTED WALLACE THIS AFTERNOON AND CHARGED HIM WITH AGGRAVATED MENACING, A FIRST DEGREE MISDEMEANOR. LIEUTENANT LARA FENING IS GRATEFUL WALLACE’S FRATERNITY BROTHERS SPOKE OUT.
>> I THINK THAT’S A TESTAMENT TO HOW SERIOUS THEY FEEL THAT THESE THREATS ARE THAT THEY’RE SCARED ENOUGH, THAT THEY DID COLLECTIVELY COME AND MAKE STATEMENTS TO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. TODD: MIAMI SENIOR JESS PAX AGREES.
>> IT’S REALLY NICE THEY HAD EACH OTHER TO TALK TO AND DECIDE TOGETHER TO GO BRING IT UP, BECAUSE IT’S REALLY HARD ESPECIALLY IF ONE PERSON KNOWS SOMETHING, LIKE, TO BRING IT UP TO THEIR FRIENDS AND BE, LIK HAVE YOU GUYS NOTICED THIS?
SO IT’S NICE THAT AS A GROUP THEY’VE BEEN ABLE TO GO AND DEAL WITH IT TOGETHER AND NOT PUT ALL THE PRESSURE ON ONE PERSON TODD: I DID NOT HAVE A CHANCE TO REACH OUT TO CAMERON WALLACE FOR COMMENT TODAY, SINCE HE WAS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY. HE’S EXPECTED TO BE ARRAIGNED TOMORROW MORNING.
TODD DYKES, WLWT N
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