A Maryland man has been arrested on suspicion of making threats tied to a possible mass shooting targeting Hispanic people in Florida, according to court documents filed Monday.
The man, identified as Eric, 35, was charged after an FBI agent filed an affidavit in the Southern District of Florida. According to Huffington Post, which reviewed the filing, the affidavit says he wrote that he wanted to kill as many Hispanic people as he could in Miami and other areas.
The affidavit describes a series of long Facebook messages that allegedly included threats of violence and praise for Adolf Hitler. The person who received the messages told investigators he often visited a restaurant where they worked. The conversations reportedly lasted about three months and filled roughly 150 pages once printed.
The arrest follows several others across the country in the days after the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio. Five other people were also arrested over the weekend for threats related to mass shootings and hate crimes, according to reports.
An arrest is not a conviction, and the details above come from court documents. The early reports did not include a response from Eric.
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