Phil D. Jay
WBN Editor
Former champion opens up as police hunt tweeter
Boxer-turned Broadway star Mike Tyson has admitted that he never
thought about the possibility of being hurt when on stage until a crazed anonymous
tweeter threatened to open fire at one of his shows.
The maniac is now being hunted by police who have subpoenaed
the social networking site Twitter to acquire the relevant information to apprehend
the culprit, who threatened to do an Aurora-style assault at Tyson’s ‘The
Undisputed Truth’ show.
The insensitivity of the tweet, which happened just under
three weeks’ ago, along with the actual severity of the threat, has prompted
Tyson to re-think his own security as he goes about his life and career.
"When somebody told me about that, I thought nobody is
going to hurt me," Tyson told CBS
This Morning.
"I'm a different kind of celebrity. I'm out in the
open, I'm accessible. Anybody could kill me. I don't have no bodyguards. My
best friend and me have a bunch of muscles, but he's not my bodyguard.
“The only thing I'm worried about is the safety of the
people in the audience. They're coming to be entertained and something drastic
like that happened, I wouldn't want to have that."
Twitter have now reportedly complied with police requests to
identify the person responsible and it is expected to be a matter of time
before they have a suspect in custody for the appalling act.