A federal grand jury on Thursday
indicted a Florida man accused of threatening to kill gay men and
lesbians.
Craig Allen Jungwirth is charged with
interstate transmission of a threatening communication. He faces a
maximum five-year prison sentence and up to a $25,000 fine if
convicted of the crime.
According to a previously released
criminal complaint, Jungwirth threatened to kill gays in several
Facebook posts.
“None of you deserve to live,” he
wrote. “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. It's time to clean up
Wilton Manors from all you AIDS infested losers,” he added in a
separate post, a reference to the Florida town with a large gay
population.
Jungwirth was arrested on September 3
by the Florida Highway Patrol on an unrelated charge and handed over
to the FBI.