A college student at the University of Central Florida who displayed distressing behavior and bought two semiautomatic rifles is being deported back to China for an unrelated visa issue, CNN reports.
Police say Wenliang Sun, 26, dyed his hair blond, purchased an expensive car with cash, stopped communicating with others, didn’t leave his room and referred to one of his guns as a “sniper rifle.”
"We know that in today's world that a person in distress who owns a high-powered firearm, we just cannot ignore that," UCF police Chief Richard Beary told CNN. "We have a duty and an obligation to make sure our people are safe."
There was “red flag after red flag,” he added.
Beary said Sun didn’t make any specific threats, but that he thought “there was a disaster about to happen and we stopped it.”
As an international student, Sun was required to go to class in order to maintain his student visa, but he hadn't been attending. Sun hasn’t been deported yet, but is being held at a U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement holding facility in Maccleny, Fla.
"Under normal circumstances, it probably would not have moved that quickly," an official with Homeland Security said. "He probably would've been placed on notice, and we would have issued him a notice to appear, indicating that he would need to go before an immigration judge in order to deal with his status, or lack thereof."
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