The FBI said the suspect made a series of threatening calls and texts to rabbis in Alabama and Louisiana, an imam in Georgia, a church in North Carolina, and others.
Federal prosecutors have charged an Alabama man with making threatening calls and texts to multiple rabbis, an imam and others in the South, including telling one rabbi that «I want you to die.»
Jeremy Wayne Shoemaker of Needham, Alabama, was charged with making an Interstate Communications Threat. He was arrested earlier on related state charges of resisting arrest and possession of a pistol by a person forbidden to legally have a handgun.
An FBI agent wrote in court documents that Shoemaker made a series of menacing calls and texts to rabbis in Alabama and Louisiana, an imam in Georgia, a church in North Carolina, and others.
Multiple firearms were later found in the man’s home, along with a suitcase full of ammunition and papers listing the names, addresses and phone numbers of religious leaders and other prominent figures, authorities said.
The agent wrote that Shoemaker told authorities that the communications were not a threat of actual violence but «an effort to intimidate or engage in psychological warfare.
