A Michigan woman has been fired from her job after wearing a Boston Marathon bombing victim costume to work last week.
Alicia Ann Lynch, 22, tweeted and instagrammed the photo of herself at her work.
Lynch was instantly bombarded with negative blowback from other Twitter users and eventually closed her Twitter account. In a re-opened account, Lynch pleaded with Twitter users to stop the death threats against her family and apologized for her costume. She also confirmed that she'd been fired from her job.
In a phone interview with Buzzfeed, Lynch describes some of the calls she and her family have received:
“I’ve had voicemails where they want to slit my throat and they want to hang me and tear off my face,” she said. “I’m just like, I don’t even know how to respond to this right now.
”The 22-year-old added that strangers also reached out to her parents and told her best friend “they’re going to blow up her house and hang her child.”
“I’m like, how is that even right? She didn’t know what I was doing. My family didn’t know what I was doing. I don’t live with them. And they’re all getting dragged into this for something I did.”
Boston Marathon victim Sydney Corcoran, who was severely injured in the attack along with her mother was one of the many people who criticized Lynch on Twitter:
Lynch, in her reopened Twitter account, tweeted her apology:
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