Man Gets 3 Years for Threats to Kelly Lange
A West Los Angeles man who told a co-worker that he was going to shoot KNBC-TV news anchorwoman Kelly Lange was sentenced Monday to three years in prison, the maximum penalty allowable under a law prohibiting “terrorist threats,” prosecutors said.
Warren Sevy Hudson, 57, who had been writing the newscaster for five years, was convicted in December of one count of making a terrorist threat under a law restored to the California penal code in 1988, said Deputy Dist. Atty. Susan J. Gruber.
Hudson was “obsessed” with Lange, Gruber said. He inundated her with cards, gifts, flowers and phone calls, and spoke of her to his co-workers as if they had a real relationship. The gifts were returned, and Lange never met or spoke to Hudson.
Most of the letters were flattering and affectionate, but others were hostile, prosecutors said.
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