UPDATE: 1:20 PM EST:
The guy who threatened to kill his sister if J. Cole didn’t retweet him is being investigated by police, according to TMZ.
A rep for the New Braunfels Police Department in Texas tells us, they have opened an investigation into the 19-year-old responsible for the tweet … after the picture (showing the fan aiming a gun at his sister’s face) was brought to their attention.
The rep says the teenager in question “is cooperating and it seems this was just a bad lapse in judgment.” Police say the gun in the picture is a BB gun, not an actual handgun.
The rep adds, “For now this is still an open investigation, and for the time being no charges are being filed.”
He also told TMZ that what he did was just all fun and games:
As for the teenager — we spoke to the kid, and he has profusely apologized for sending the message, telling us, “I’d like to apologize to America for the photo and to put J. Cole in that position. It was all a joke.”
He added, “It was an unloaded BB gun and my sister was in on it. I only tweeted it because I didn’t expect a response. Mr. Cole please don’t sue me. I want to formally apologize more to J. Cole and yeah my mom made me delete my twitter until I fixed it.”
We’ll keep you updated on the latest.
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Dude, a retweet is NEVER this serious.
J. Cole was basically blackmailed on Twitter this week, when a fan tweeted a photo of a little girl with a gun to her head.
The tweet?
@JColeNC retweet me and I’ll buy Born Sinner. Don’t retweet me and I’ll kill my lil sister pic.twitter.com/slqW4OlvIK
— That Aint My Kid (@_TzC_) June 18, 2013
Dude’s account was deleted by Twitter yesterday.
It’s unclear if the gun is real or fake, but either way, you don’t point a gun in anybody’s face.
J. Cole did finally respond to the alarming tweet with this message:
Wildest shit I ever seen on twitter
— J. Cole (@JColeNC) June 18, 2013
From the looks of it, the guy was reported. But we just hope the little girl is out of harm’s way.
SOURCE: Buzzfeed
