Twitter Complies With Police Subpoena For Aurora Copycat Account Information

Twitter has agreed to hand over the account information of an individual who threatened to carry out a theater shooting similar to the recent tragedy in Aurora.

The New York Times reports that after a three day delay from Twitter officials, the company turned over identifying information about the suspect to New York city police.

The individual in question tweeted threateningly that he or she would shoot patrons at Mike Tyson’s one-man Broadway show, allegedly writing, “I’m serious, people are gonna die like Aurora.”

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