African-American pleads guilty to making Facebook racial threat

(CNN) - An African-American man has pleaded guilty after being accused of impersonating a white supremacist in a fictitious Facebook account to make death threats against an African-American university student.

Dyron L. Hart, 20, of Poplarville, Mississippi, pleaded guilty Wednesday before U.S. District Judge Kurt D. Engelhardt to one count of communicating threats in interstate commerce, according to a Department of Justice statement.

Hart admitted creating the fictitious account in November 2008, the statement said. Then via Facebook, he told an African-American student at Nicholls State University in Louisiana that he wanted to kill African-Americans because of the election of Barack Obama's, according to the statement.

Hart faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine when sentenced on November 18, the statement said.
–CNN's Carolina Sanchez contributed to this report