A man from Georgia was arrested after threatening to kill congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Thursday. The story was first reported on by CNN.
A 34-year-old named Sean Patrick Cirillo from Macon, Georgia called Greene’s office on Wednesday, Nov. 8 and threatened to shoot and kill the mother of three. Greene’s office released a recording of the phone call to CNN.
“I’m going to murder her, I’m going to shoot her in the (expletive) head and kill her, OK,” the caller said. “Tell the FBI.”
He continued, yelling: “You’re going to die. Your family is going to die.”
He also reportedly specified that he would seek to kill Greene “next week.”
NBC News reported that the caller also said, “You don’t think it’s going to happen when you are out of power?” and “You don’t think you are going to get payback?”
A Georgia man has been charged with threatening to kill GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. The man also threatened to kill her family and staff.
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According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia, Cirillo is being charged with the felony offense of “using communications devices to make threats.”
Greene provided CNN with a written statement:
I want to thank every single member of law enforcement who acted swiftly in response to this murderous threat. From Rome City Police, the Floyd County Sheriff’s Office, U.S. Capitol Police, the House Sergeant at Arms, and ultimately the FBI who made the arrest, every official acted quickly to put this man behind bars.
[…]I’m not the only victim with this threat of violence. My family is threatened. My staff is threatened. I even had to close my district office due to the potential of violence. It’s wrong and never should happen.
NBC reported that she added: “Threats of violence must be taken seriously. And that’s exactly why I take my Second Amendment rights seriously.”
Greene recently went viral for recording a pro-Palestine protest in the U.S. Capitol. She also recently filed censure resolutions against Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MH) and articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
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