The F.B.I. has arrested a Florida man
who threatened to “exterminate” gay men and lesbians.
Fifty-year-old Craig Allen Jungwirth of
Wilton Manors, considered an LGBT-friendly city, made the threats on
Facebook.
“None of you deserve to live,” he
wrote, according to a
criminal complaint released by the bureau. “If you losers
thought the Pulse nightclub shooting was bad, wait till you see what
I'm planning for Labor Day.”
The Pulse is the Orlando gay nightclub
where 49 people died and dozens were injured in a mass shooting in
June.
“You can never catch a genius from
MIT and since you faggots aren't dying from AIDS anymore, I have a
better solution to exterminate you losers,” he wrote in a separate
post. “It's time to clean up Wilton Manors from all you AIDS
infested losers.”
The Florida Highway Patrol arrested
Jungwirth on an unrelated charge on Saturday.
Since Facebook does not have servers
located in Florida, Jungwirth is charged with transmitting an
interstate “threat to injure the person of another.”
According to an
unconfirmed report, Jungwirth was hospitalized some time after
his arrest.