A fired Oklahoma City nursing home worker admitted that he told a co-worker he was going to cut her head off, News OK reported on Thursday.
Jacob Mugambi Muriithi, 30, was charged Thursday with staging a terrorism hoax, a violation of the state's anti-terrorism act, at his job at the Bellevue Nursing Home in northwest Oklahoma City.
Oklahoma County District Attorney David Prater approved of the filing of the felony charge. If convicted, Muriithi faces up to 10 years in prison.
Muriithi claims he and the co-worker, who has been identified as Monique Garrett, were both joking around and that he had no plans to cut off her head.
But the co - worker said Muriithi "was serious when speaking and never made any statements that he was joking or playing around," police detective Robert Wright stated.
He is said to have threatened her on Sept. 13, the same day Islamic State militants released a video of the beheading of David Haines, a British aid worker.
Garrett said Muriithi identified himself as a Muslim and said he "represented ISIS and that ISIS kills Christians," according to the court affidavit.
Garrett said she asked him why they kill Christians and he replied, "This is just what we do," detectives reported.
"The victim said Jacob asked her what time she got off work, and she replied by asking him in a joking manner if he was going to kill her," the detective wrote.
"Jacob told the victim, 'Yes,' he was going to cut her head off. The victim asked Jacob what he was going to cut her head off with and he said, 'A blade,' then told her after he did it he was going to post it on Facebook," the report states.
The woman said Muriithi repeated the threat as she left work in front of another employee. Garrett reported the conversation to police on Sept. 16 and Muriithi was fired the next day.
His attorney said Muriithi, who was born in Kenya, has a clean arrest record.
Murriithi's arrest Sept. 26 made national headlines in part because it came on the same day police in Moore reported an irate food processing plant worker had also beheaded a co-worker.
Alton Alexander Nolen, a Muslim convert, has been charged with first-degree murder in the beheading at Vaughan Foods in Moore on Sept. 25.
