The Florida man accused of threatening
to kill gay men and lesbians made his first court appearance on
Thursday.
Fifty-year-old Craig Allen Jungwirth of
Wilton Manors appeared before federal Magistrate David Baker in
Orlando. NBC
affiliate WESH reported that Jungwirth's attorney will ask Baker
on Monday to release his client on a pretrial bond.
Wilton Manors police issued an alert on
Jungwirth after he allegedly threatened to kill gays in several
Facebook posts.
“None of you deserve to live,” he
wrote, according to a
criminal complaint released by the FBI. “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 stopped
Jungwirth on an unrelated charge on Saturday and handed him over to
the FBI.
Jungwirth complained of chest pains and
was taken to a local hospital. The incident pushed back his court
date from Tuesday to Thursday.
The 2010 Census ranked Wilton Manors as
having the second highest percentage (14%) of same-sex couples behind
Provincetown, Massachusetts.