A man has been taken into custody following allegations that he issued threats on social media, mere hours before students and community members assembled for a vigil in honor of Charlie Kirk at the University of Texas at San Antonio, as reported.
Nineteen-year-old Xaelyn Dunbar faces charges for making a terroristic threat by deliberately and knowingly intimidating violence. He is accused of mentioning in a Facebook comment on September 15 that he intended to use his vehicle to disrupt the vigil, which later gathered approximately 1,000 attendees, according to the San Antonio Express News, referencing an arrest affidavit.
The threatening comments appeared on the Facebook page of the San Antonio Young Republicans, who were promoting the vigil on campus for Kirk, the Turning Point USA co-founder who was tragically killed on September 10 during an event at Utah Valley University.
The situation was reported by a captain at UTSA to the San Antonio Police Department, prompting them to dispatch officers, along with Universal City police, to Dunbar’s residence at Sagebrush Apartments on the city’s northeastern side that night.
Dunbar confessed to making the Facebook comments and conceded they might be perceived as menacing, yet he argued he was merely “being silly” and “joking around,” as per the affidavit.
Charlie Kirk was a conservative activist who led Turning Point USA. (Alex Brandon/The Associated Press)
He allegedly told officers, “Even if I’m 19 years old, that doesn’t mean I won’t still act like a kid.”
When questioned about whether the threats warranted criminal charges, he responded, “If that’s what it takes, I did what I did, and I can face the consequences,” as stated in the affidavit.
He remains held in the Bexar County Jail on a $40,000 bond.
