Man arrested for child killing threats

(AP) — A California man accused of posting comments on ESPN’s website saying he was watching kids and wouldn’t mind killing them was in jail yesterday on $1 million bail after he was arrested for investigation of making terrorist threats, authorities said.

Several guns were found Monday at the home of former Yale University student Eric Yee, said Los Angeles County sheriff’s Lt. Steve Low.

Yee was arrested after the sports network ESPN reported threatening posts were made in a reader response section to an online ESPN story on Thursday about new Nike sneakers named after LeBron James that cost $270 a pair. Some of the nearly 3,000 reader comments on the story talked about children possibly getting killed over the sneakers because of how expensive they are, said ESPN spokesman Mike Soltys.

“What he was posting had nothing to do with sports,” Soltys said yesterday. “We closely monitor the message boards and anytime we get a threat, we’re alerting law enforcement officials.”

An employee at ESPN headquarters in Bristol, Conn., notified local police the same day and they linked the posting to Yee’s home in Santa Clarita in northern Los Angeles County. Sheriff’s investigators said they were contacted Sunday and began surveillance on the home where Yee, 21, lives with his parents until a search warrant was obtained.