A 19-year-old New Mexico man is facing federal criminal charges for alleged violent threats made online shortly after Charlie Kirk’s assassination. (Caspar Benson / Getty Images)
A 19-year-old New Mexico man is facing federal charges after admitting to the FBI that he posted violent threats online in the wake of the recent shooting death of Charlie Kirk, including a threat toward an Ohio City Councilor, federal prosecutors announced Friday afternoon.
Jace Allen, of Jamestown, N.M., began making threatening posts on X, shortly after Kirk’s assassination at an event at Utah Valley in Orem, Utah on Sept. 10. Some of the exchanges mentioned Kirk’s death, including one from Allen, in which he said: “I will harm anyone who has something bad to say about Charlie.”
In more than a dozen posts, Allen said he was going to “commit mass murder” targeting Black, Jewish and liberal people, as well as other individual people on line he said he was “coming for,” according to the criminal complaint. Many of the posts are still online. The account has 0 followers.
An FBI agent in Toledo, Ohio, received a tip about the posts Thursday, including one against an Ohio City Council member that said, “You’re going to be one of the first to die. I’ll be seeing you soon,” according to the criminal complaint.
The Ohio FBI agent tracked the account to a home in Jamestown and notified an FBI agent in Gallup, according to the complaint. Around 6 p.m. yesterday, the agent interviewed Allen at his home, where Allen said he identifies as a Neo-Nazi, according to the complaint.
“Allen believes a civil war is inevitable in the United States and wants to help spark the civil war by terrorizing people online,” FBI agent Michael Dalpini wrote in the complaint filed Friday.
Allen allegedly told the agent that, while he does not own a gun, he wanted to buy a rifle with a scope that is the same make, model and style of the kind police say was used to assassinate Kirk, according to the complaint.
However, when Allen gave the FBI agent consent to search his phone, police found two videos from mid-August of him shooting a rifle and handgun at an unknown location, according to the complaint.
Allen is facing charges of interstate communications containing a threat to injure another person. He could face five years in prison, if convicted.