FILE – View of the inside of the Tesla Giga Texas manufacturing facility during a tour ahead of the “Cyber Rodeo” grand opening party on April 7, 2022 in Austin, Texas.
A Florida man was arrested this week after allegedly planning to commit a "mass casualty event" at Tesla headquarters in Texas during a Cybertruck promotion attended by Elon Musk, prosecutors said.
Paul Ryan Overeem, a 28-year-old Orlando resident, was booked on suspicion of making a terrorist threat, a third-degree felony, according to a Travis County arrest warrant.
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Overeem wrote under the name "ufotnoitalumis" in an Instragram chat and made a series of threats on Nov. 9, targeting Tesla's Cybertruck promotional event in Austin on Thursday, authorities said.
The event was attended by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, though he was not named as a specific target in the arrest warrant.
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The threats included: "But yeah so at teh (sic) Tesla event I'm planning to attach (sic) so up to you guys to stop me," "I plan on killing people at that even (sic) ok (sic) November 30th and I would like you do something about it so I don't have to" and "I wanna die."
The suspect also appeared to object to technology in modern life.
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