Regrets reporting a cyber crime?

[Kristina]

On the website Deviantart, I started getting some threatening messages from someone, saying they'll find where I live and that I would die, because he doesn't like the subject that I draw. Usually I'm clam about the situation, and I blocked him and reported it. However, it continued even after I blocked the user since he had an extra account, and everyone knows that that's one way to get around DeviantArt's abuse policy. The user then said that he was going to make videos about how stupid I am or whatever.

In the end I had been shaken up: I think because I've been stressed from work, and school, and tuition, and a death in the family, so because I wasn't really thinking logically, I went and reported it to the Internet Crime Complaint Center, which to be honest really jumped the gun seeing as I didn't have that much information. Well, after doing some research, I found that the guy was pretty much a troll, and I even found who he was since he left a pretty big trail... but more importantly I found out he was a minor.

Either way, although I had been shaken up at the time, and I did block and report and everything, I DID respond to him at one point to give the message that I was going to continue what I like drawing, and that he wasn't so big just because he was sending empty threats: so to e honest I'm not innocent in their either.

But I jumped the gun; and now it's reported, and I actually wish I hadn't reported it like I did; I should have let it be resolved on DeviantArt. But now what do I do?
Apparently I can't cancel the report: and now I feel bad because, what if it ruins the life of his family who is probably innocent in this!
He's a minor: so if anything it'll be his parents who get punished, which would be pretty unfair I think...

But maybe I'm just tried from all the stress and not sleeping and that is why I actually feel guilty. What do you think?

More Info: When I found the user's FaceBook I left a message to his father explaining the incident because I wanted to give fair warning. Should I have left it alone? I feel really dumb right now!

[Sailor Luna]

Lol, if you felt your life was in danger then i guess you have every right to. Most likely he or she is a young teen or child, so its better to stop the bullying before it grows into something worse. We are not stupid as individuals in this present day there are many ads and campaigns of all kinds to promote the cease of cyber bullying.
As a result in time no one wants to be called a bully, and they get defensive and start getting technical about the definition or act of a bully-of course in this case he or she tried to bully you but you got the power back by calling an authority.
Just remember there are haters out there, don't let them confuse you, the weak ones prey on the good so naturally anything positive will strike them, they get intimidated, jealous, whatever and need to bring you down. This is bullying you can put it into as many sub-categories as you want but generally speaking it is what it is. So don't feel bad, he or she knew what it was when they wrote the first nasty comment, they will get reprimanded.

[tesseract]

Deviantart has a lot of great artists, but you are probably already aware that it is a magnet for trolls and censorship advocates.
That said, you should generally feel comfortable with drawing a line that you will not accept unacceptable behaviour. Threatening to 1 find out where you live via an internet connection is at the least a little creepy.
2 threatening you with violence or death is VERY ILLEGAL
If a child or teen is behaving this way on the internet, then you can bet that the parents are not making appropriate efforts to supervise their childrens internet activity. So any complications that come their way as result of this episode should be a well deserved wake up call. This may end up getting the parental units a slap on the wrist so that they pay attention to the kids issues that are behind this kind of acting out. So instead of focusing on the possible downside of wrecking his future, focus on the more likely result of preventing a crime story appearing in the newspapers on page one. Anyone acting out like this is not likely to have a future worth saving unless corrective action steers the kid into more constructive channels for his or her actions anyway.
My parents both passed in the last two years, and classes can be a lot of stress.
Take care of yourself, stick with school, enjoy your art, and let the consequences of bad behaviour from a goofball to himself and his parents be their problem not yours.