A New Hampshire man who was charged with threatening to kill presidential candidates final yr has been discovered lifeless as a jury was deciding his verdict.
Tyler Anderson, 30, of Dover, was charged with three counts of sending a menace utilizing interstate commerce has discovered lifeless as a jury was making a verdict.
A court docket submitting from Anderson’s trial reads, “The federal government has realized that the defendant is deceased.”
One of many threatening texts was despatched to former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy.
Courtroom paperwork revealed after Anderson acquired a textual content message from Ramswamy’s marketing campaign inviting him to a breakfast occasion in Portsmouth, Anderson responded by writing he would ‘shoot Vivek within the head, and the opposite message threatened to kill everybody on the occasion and desecrate their corpses.’
The FBI reported that Anderson despatched comparable texts to “a number of different campaigns” however didn’t specify which campaigns acquired the threats.
A New Hampshire man on trial for allegedly threatening the lives of presidential candidates final yr has been discovered lifeless whereas a jury was deciding his verdict, in line with court docket filings. https://t.co/TVl5VqEtkq
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Per NBC Boston:
A New Hampshire man charged with threatening the lives of presidential candidates final yr has been discovered lifeless whereas a jury was deciding his verdict, in line with court docket filings Thursday.
The jury started weighing the case towards Tyler Anderson, 30, of Dover on Tuesday after a trial that started Monday. A message looking for remark from Anderson’s lawyer was not instantly returned. A court docket submitting mentioned “the federal government has realized that the defendant is deceased.” Prosecutors have moved to dismiss the indictment having realized Anderson has died.
Anderson was indicted by a federal grand jury in December on three counts of sending a menace utilizing interstate commerce. Every cost supplies for a sentence of as much as 5 years in jail, as much as three years of supervised launch, and a high quality of as much as $250,000.
The U.S. Lawyer’s workplace didn’t identify the candidates. When Anderson was arrested, a spokesperson for Republican candidate Vivek Ramaswamy mentioned that texts have been directed at his marketing campaign.
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