Overview
- Prosecutors announced the arrest of 40-year-old Sean Keenan of Havertown on Tuesday and charged him with terroristic threats, ethnic intimidation, harassment and disorderly conduct.
- The sheriff’s office received two threatening voicemails on July 18 that began with the phrase “death to Islam” and included graphic threats such as “I’m going to hunt you” and references to sniping and force-feeding.
- Investigators used a public phone-number database to trace the calls, matched the voicemail voice to a February 911 call, executed a search warrant at Keenan’s home on July 21, and say Keenan admitted making the calls from his personal and work phones.
- Officials emphasized the messages were treated as criminal bias-motivated threats because Sheriff Siddiq Kamara is Muslim and prosecutors said the language crossed the line into criminal behavior.
- Local leaders warned the case highlights the risk of hate-driven threats close to home and the prosecution could prompt greater enforcement of bias and terroristic-threat statutes in similar local incidents.