Monroe man guilty of plotting synagogue and school shootings
MONROE — A Monroe man pleaded guilty Friday after he spent months making online threats to kill dozens of Jews, to shoot up a school and to carry out other acts of terrorism.
Dakota Reed, 20, admitted guilt in Snohomish County Superior Court to two counts of threats to bomb or injure property. The standard sentence under state law is six to 12 months in jail.
Prosecutors plan to call for a year behind bars.
Defense attorney Rick Merrill intends to argue for a first-time offender waiver — allowing for much lighter punishment — at a sentencing hearing June 4.
In fall 2018, the Anti-Defamation League tipped off the FBI about someone threatening mass killings on Facebook under fake names, according to charging papers.
“I’m shooting for 30 Jews,” read a post Nov. 11. “No pun needed. Long ways away anyways. See you Goys.”
He espoused hateful, violent views under seven profiles that used aliases Tom Shill and William King. He was emboldened by a recent resurgence in hate groups nationwide.
“We can’t vote away what our fathers tried to, we must spill blood,” he wrote, hidden behind a screen and under the anonymity of his page Tom Shill II. “With ‘hate groups’ at the all-time high and with the internet to help spread our word eternally.”
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