Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said on Thursday she was one of the potential targets of a man who was charged by federal prosecutors with threatening to kill state employees who are Jewish.
Jack Eugene Carpenter III, a 41-year-old Michigan man who was in Texas at the time, is accused of making the threats on Twitter, intending to cause injury and death to Jewish officials "if they don't leave, or confess," according to a criminal complaint unsealed on Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.
"The FBI has confirmed I was a target of the heavily armed defendant in this matter," Nessel, who is in her second term, said in a tweet. Federal authorities in Texas took Carpenter into custody on Feb. 21 and later transported him to Detroit, where he made an initial court appearance on Wednesday. He is charged with transmitting in interstate commerce a threat to injure with a Feb. 17 social media post, the U.S. attorney's office said.
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