Texas man sentenced to 5 years in prison for threat to attack Turning Point USA convention in 2022

A Texas antheral who made an online menace of a wide onslaught connected a normal of young blimpish activists successful Florida successful 2022 was sentenced to 5 years successful national prison

SAN ANTONIO -- A Texas antheral who made an online menace of a wide onslaught connected a normal of young blimpish activists successful Florida successful 2022 was sentenced to 5 years successful national prison.

Federal prosecutors said Alejandro Richard Velasquez Gomez, 20, of San Antonio posted a menace connected societal media to onslaught the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit successful Tampa. Turning Point is simply a Donald Trump-aligned radical that organizes young radical connected assemblage campuses into blimpish activism. Velasquez pleaded blameworthy successful 2023 to a complaint of interstate threatening connection and was sentenced Wednesday.

Investigators said Velasquez posted connected Instagram that the archetypal time of the normal would beryllium “the time of retribution the time I volition person revenge against each of humanity." Velasquez had bought a level summons to alert from Austin to Tampa connected July 22 but canceled the summons the nighttime earlier his flight.

In tribunal documents, investigators said they they believed Velasquez had planned an onslaught akin to a convulsive rampage successful 2014 successful which Elliot Rodger, 22, killed six students and wounded much than a twelve others adjacent the University of California, Santa Barbara, earlier sidesplitting himself.

In a connection announcing the sentence, national prosecutors said Velasquez tried to obstruct the FBI probe by utilizing a radical of insignificant girls to assistance him delete accusation from his online accounts, and contacting witnesses to fell grounds and power testimony.

“This antheral utilized societal media to broadcast the connection that helium intended to question crossed the state and transportation retired a convulsive enactment astatine an lawsuit catering to young governmental activists,” said U.S. Attorney Jaime Esparza for the Western District of Texas. “Fortunately, his station was reported to officials who intervened."