Jacob Mugambi Muriithi threatened to behead a co-worker and said he represented ISIS.
He was arrested on Friday.
Muriithi was arrested on Friday.
Jacob Mugambi Muriithi, a Muslim from Kenya, told the coworker he “represented ISIS and that ISIS kills Christians.”
Muriithi said he was going to behead the co-worker and “post it on Facebook.”
OKCFOX reported:
Oklahoma City Police arrested Jacob Muriithi on a terrorism charge Friday after he allegedly made a reference about beheading a female coworker at a nursing home.
An unnamed woman working at the Bellevue Nursing Home in Oklahoma City filed a police report on Sept. 16th about Muriithi, Oklahoma City PD Captain Dexter Nelson said.
The incident is believed to have occurred Sept. 13th.
The alleged victim and Muriithi were talking when she made the comments, and she thought he was joking due to his dry sense of humor.
“The threat precipitated from a piece of religious jewelry,” Capt. Nelson said. “It does appear to stem from [the victim’s] ethnicity.”
According to an incident report from OKC PD, the victim was wearing a star of David necklace and following a remark on that, Muriithi allegedly told the victim he was Muslim and affiliated with ISIS, and that they “killed Christians by cutting off their heads.”
He then made a suggestion that he “was going to wait until she got off work and cut her head off” and then post it on Facebook.
When asked why ISIS kills Christians, the Muriithi said “that is just what we do,” an affidavit states.
“The suspect did make references to ISIS, and an affiliation with them,” Nelson said.
The woman apparently did not know what ISIS was at the time and after asking others about what the organization was, later thought Muriithi wasn’t joking, and her concern prompted her to file the report on the 16th.
