20-year-old Alejandro Velasquez Gomez was sentenced to five years in federal prison for planning a mass attack on Turning Point USA Student Action Summit and obstructing the FBI investigation.
20-year-old Alejandro Richard Velasquez Gomez of San Antonio, Texas, was sentenced to five years in federal prison for making an online threat of a mass attack on the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit in Tampa, Florida, in 2022. The conservative event organizes young people on college campuses into conservative activism. Velasquez pleaded guilty in 2023 to a charge of interstate threatening communication and was found to have planned an attack similar to the 2014 violent rampage by Elliot Rodger. He also tried to obstruct the FBI investigation by using minor girls to delete information from his online accounts and contact witnesses to hide evidence and influence testimony.
May 02, 2024
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