ALBANY, N.Y. — A South Carolina woman was sentenced to five months in jail for sending racially charged death threats to a Black man in Catskill, New York, via social media, federal prosecutors announced Thursday.
Kristin Keeble, 54, of Pageland, South Carolina, pleaded guilty to transmitting a threat to injure another in interstate commerce. Along with her jail term, she was sentenced to three years of supervised release, including six months of home detention.
According to court documents, Keeble sent four threatening voice messages through Facebook Messenger on October 26, 2023. The messages were described as profanity-laced, racially derogatory, and included threats to kill the victim by hanging, along with similar threats toward a woman known to the victim and her children.
Keeble claimed in the recordings that she was acting with members of the Ku Klux Klan. Prosecutors said she specifically targeted the victim after seeing his Facebook profile photo and identifying him as Black.
“No one should ever receive despicable, hateful threats like this,” said Acting U.S. Attorney John A. Sarcone III. “Those who threaten people over the Internet are going to be prosecuted and held accountable to the fullest extent of the law.”
The case was investigated by the FBI Albany Field Office.
