LOCAL : Man Convicted for Threats Against KNBC-TV’s Kelly Lange
An unemployed laborer was convicted today of making a terrorist threat against KNBC-TV news anchorwoman Kelly Lange.
Warren Sevy Hudson was convicted by Superior Court jurors who deliberated less than one full day.
Hudson, 57, had tried since 1985 to contact Lange, sending her notes and gifts and making telephone calls. During Hudson’s brief trial, Lange testified that he sent her a postcard that said “something to the effect that ‘I’m going to blow your head off in the parking lot some night and you’re never going to know what hit you.’ ”
Hudson was arrested Aug. 11 at the West Washington Boulevard motel where he lived.
Hudson was fired from his job two days earlier, and had told a co-worker he was “bored with life and that he was going to Burbank to shoot Kelly Lange,” Deputy Dist. Atty. James David Jacobs said. Police arresting Hudson found a .38-caliber handgun and ammunition in his motel room.
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