'Heavily armed' man targeted Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, she says
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel was targeted last month by a "heavily armed" man who threatened injury and death to Jewish members of the state government, she said Thursday morning.
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel was targeted last month by a "heavily armed" man who threatened injury and death to Jewish members of the state government, she said Thursday morning.
Jack Eugene Carpenter III is accused of tweeting: "I’m heading back to Michigan now threatening to carry out the punishment of death to anyone that is jewish in the Michigan govt if they don’t leave, or confess, and now that kind of problem," according to a criminal complaint filed Feb. 18.
"Because I can Legally do that, right?” he added, according to the complaint.
Carpenter's mother confirmed to investigators that the tweets came from him and that to her knowledge, he was in possession of "three handguns, a 12 gauge shotgun, and two hunting rifles, one of which is an MIA, military-style weapon," the complaint said.
Nessel, a Democrat, said Thursday in a tweet that the FBI confirmed she had been one of the officials targeted by "the heavily armed defendant in this matter."
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