When searching the suspect’s house, firearms, ammunition and materials were found that officials described as “paraphernalia of radical ideology”
Photo: Kerr County Sheriff / Courtesy
Monday, October 7
Armed to the teeth, man planned mass shooting at Texas Walmart
TEXAS – Fortunately, their terrorist plans were thwarted by the authorities if they had not been a Texas man may have staged a mass shooting at a Walmart facility.
Authorities reported that they arrested a man who allegedly planned to carry out a mass shooting at a Walmart, and When searching the suspect’s house, they found firearms , ammunition and materials that officials described it as “radical ideology paraphernalia.”
Coleman Thomas Blevins, from 24 years, he was arrested in Kerrville and charged with carrying out a “terrorist threat to create public fear of serious injury, ”reported the Kerr County Sheriff’s Office.
A man suspected of planning a mass shooting has been arrested in Texas after authorities intercepted a message that indicated he was ‘preparing to proceed’, the Kerr County Sheriff’s Office has said. https: //t.co/El5LoRcZuG
– News 24 (@News 24) May 31, 2021
Investigators said they intercepted a message that Blevins posted on networks Thursday that he was “preparing to proceed with a mass shooting” and that the threat included Walmart. Blevins was arrested the following day.
The authorities searched the suspect’s house and, according to the statement, “firearms, ammunition, electronic evidence, and paraphernalia of radical ideology, including books, flags, and handwritten documents. ”
Blevins was on felony probation and was not supposed to have weapons, according to the statement.
The suspect is in the Kerr County Jail in Kerrville, a city about 70 miles (113 miles) northwest of San Antonio.
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