Feds: Incel Threatened Mass Shooting At Vegan Event

The New York Daily News reports:

A Brooklyn “incel” with a grudge against the vegan community threatened a mass shooting at the upstate Woodstock Fruit Festival if its organizers didn’t cancel the event or prevent people he hated from attending, the feds say.

William Swift, 32, made his threats in e-mails and audio recordings to one of the week-long festival’s organizers, telling her in one chilling message, “The ideal thing would be to go up to Woodstock to shoot up…the Jewish meet up. That would be ideal,” according to court filings.

The festival, which runs from Aug. 21 through Aug. 28 at Camp Walden in Diamond Point, N.Y., bills itself as a lakeside “vegan health retreat” and “an all-out celebration of health, fruit-based diet and personal growth.”

The New York Post reports:

Swift allegedly made sinister threats against an unnamed woman who helps organize the event, invoking serial killer Ted Bundy in an audio recording sent to her, according to the feds.

“I’m sorry to say this but I can’t stop fantasizing about doing very, very, very bad things to you, I don’t have a plan I just fantasize about doing very, very bad things to you….,” the sicko allegedly said on the recording.

He added that he fantasized about doing a “f–king Ted Bundy” to her unless she shut down the festival.

At this writing, the suspect’s Instagram account, where he calls himself “the fruitarian,” is still active. In many of his photos, he’s eating fruit. In the post below, he refers to himself as “based” – which is far-right speak for not caring about the feelings or needs of others.



 

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