ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A former Old Dominion University student who targeted his school with a fake bomb threat so he could skip class has pleaded guilty to a swatting conspiracy that ended up encompassing a neo-Nazi leader.
Nineteen-year-old John William Kirby Kelley pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court in Alexandria. A former leader of a neo-Nazi group called Atomwaffen Division pleaded guilty to his own role in the scheme last week.
Kelley suggested his own university as a target for the swatting calls and later earned scorn from his fellow conspirators for targeting an institution that could be linked back to him.
