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Virginia man charged with threatening to burn Kamala Harris alive
A 66-year-old Virginia man is charged with threatening to burn Vice President Kamala Harris alive to see her suffer.
A prosecutor for the Western District of Virginia said Frank Lucio Carillo was in court Monday for a preliminary hearing over death threats he made against the vice president, who’s also the Democratic party’s nominee for president in November.
Using the name “joemadarats1” on his GETTER social media account, Carillo mentioned Harris nearly 20 times, prosecutors said. Some of those postings were menacing in nature including one claiming the 59-year-old politician would regret running for the presidency after he plucked “out her eyes with a pair of pliers.”
Carillo is also accused of threatening to shoot anyone who tried to protect Harris in that July 27 post.
Another comment on the suspect’s GETTER account calls for someone to incinerate the Democratic candidate.
“Kamala Harris needs to be put on fire alive,” he wrote the same day, according to a Friday court filing. “I will do it personally if no one else does it. I want her to suffer a slow agonizing death.”
Also last week, Carillo allegedly wrote to Harris “Just for being a Democrat you’re going to die.”
Law enforcement officers said in an affidavit they found a rifle and a handgun in the suspect’s home Winchester, Virginia, home during a search last week. When police came to Carillo’s door, he reportedly asked if their visit was “about the online stuff” and didn’t deny posting the messages.
The 2024 presidential election is shaping up to be highly contentious. Republican candidate Donald Trump has recently escalated his attempts to draw attention to Harris being a woman of color.
He’s also planted the seed that, if he loses in November, it will be because the election was somehow rigged. He made that same false assertion after being defeated handily by President Joe Biden in 2020.
Days before the Republican National Committee made Trump its presidential candidate for third straight time last month, a Pennsylvania gunman fired several shots at the 78-year-old Queens native at a rally, wounding the nominee’s ear.
It remains unclear why the shooter, a 20-year-old registered Republican, attempted to assassinate the party’s representative to lead the country.
Harris put out a statement condemning the “abhorrent act” that nearly killed her opponent.
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Jessica Aber, the former U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA), died of natural causes, the Alexandria Police Department said of its initial probe on Tuesday.
After receiving a report of an unresponsive woman on Saturday, police responded to the 900 block of Beverley Drive at around 9:18 a.m., where they found Aber deceased.
“At this time, detectives have found no evidence suggesting that her death was caused by anything other than natural causes,” Alexandria police said. “The investigation is ongoing, and the case will remain open until the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) returns a final ruling on the cause and manner of death.”
Aber began her service for EDVA as an assistant U.S. attorney in 2009. She served on a detailed assignment as counsel to the assistant attorney general for the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice from 2015 to 2016. She then served as the deputy chief of EDVA’s criminal division.
Aber was nominated U.S. attorney by former President Joe Biden and unanimously confirmed by the Senate in 2021. She resigned two months ago when President Donald Trump took office.
Aber’s former colleagues are honoring her legacy.
In a post on X, Attorney General of Virginia Jason Miyares said, “I am saddened to learn of the passing of Jessica Aber, whose career of public service included US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia and whose work with Ceasefire Virginia saved more lives than we may ever realize.”
Erik S. Siebert, the current U.S. attorney for EDVA, described Aber in a statement as being “unmatched as a leader, mentor, and prosecutor, and she is simply irreplaceable as a human being.”
“We remain in awe of how much she accomplished in her all too brief time in this world. Her professionalism, grace, and legal acumen set the standard,” he said. “Though we are devastated by this loss, each of us in the Eastern District of Virginia will look to her example and endeavor to live up to that standard.”
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Siebert also said Aber was a “proud Virginian” who graduated from the University of Richmond and earned her J.D. from William & Mary Law School.
“She loved EDVA and EDVA loved her back,” Siebert said. “We remain committed to her life’s work, a commitment to seeking justice, as she would have wanted.”
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