EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — A 19-year-old New Mexico man was arrested and charged on Thursday, Sept. 11, after making violent threats online involving mass murder following the assassination of Charlie Kirk, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office from the District of New Mexico.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office says on Thursday, Sept. 11, Jace Allen, 19, posted a series of violent and racist threats on X under the alias “Jebron Lames” following the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
Among the threats, Allen said that he planned to commit mass murder, target minorities and Jewish people, and shoot up unspecified locations, and also threatened to kill an Ohio city council member, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Allen wrote directly to the council member, stating, “You’re gonna be one of the first to die.”
The FBI’s Toledo Resident Agency quickly traced the X account to Allen’s phone and residence in Jamestown, New Mexico.
Agents then located and interviewed Allen at his home that same Thursday, to which Allen admitted to making the posts, acknowledged being a Neo-Nazi who hates Jewish people and minorities, and also said that he wanted to “help spark a civil war by terrorizing people online,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.
Allen told officials he did not own a firearm. However, officials searched his phone and found videos of Allen firing a rifle and a handgun in August.
Allen is being charged with transmitting communications containing a threat to injure another person and will remain in custody pending a detention hearing. If convicted, Allen faces five years in prison.
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