FBI: Truck driver threatened mass shooting at Memphis church

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

FBI: Truck driver threatened mass shooting at Memphis church

By JEFF MARTIN
August 20, 2019

A truck driver has been arrested after saying he would commit a mass shooting at a church in Memphis, Tennessee, authorities say in newly filed court records.

Thomas Matthew McVicker was apprehended in Indianapolis before the plan could be carried out, according to court papers filed Monday. It’s the most recent case in a string of men being arrested around the country for threatening to carry out shootings.

McVicker, 38, made “credible threats to conduct a mass shooting and suicide” planned for Thursday, an FBI special agent said in a sworn affidavit.

The circumstances of his arrest in Indiana weren’t outlined in the affidavit.

Earlier this month, a friend of McVicker in the southern Alabama town of Fairhope told a Florida FBI agent McVicker has been considering “shooting a church up” or killing people on the street.

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[cwydro]

1. Wtf is wrong with these men?

[Phoenix61]

2. Used to live in Fairhope.

Looks pretty but the most racist place I have ever lived.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

3. Another of Trump's "Very fine people"

[NightWatcher]

4. Doesn't this make 6 or 7 mass shootings averted THIS WEEK?

They've arrested two separate kids for threatening to shoot up schools within 100 miles of me.

It's maddening.

[imanamerican63]

5. This is very discouraging, but there are many more idiots out on the roads.

The scary part of it is you don't know who they are?