SAN ANTONIO – A 19-year-old man was arrested for making online threats in the comments of a Facebook post about a Charlie Kirk vigil at the University of Texas at San Antonio, according to an arrest affidavit.
Xaelyn Dunbar faces a charge of terroristic threat, court records from Bexar County show.
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The affidavit states Dunbar wrote under a Facebook post, “This is a disgrace and I can tell you right now ima make sure this won’t be a good nor comforting vigil yall watch and see.”
The post was about a vigil planned for Kirk on Sept. 15 at the UTSA main campus. Kirk was the CEO and co-founder of the conservative youth organization Turning Point USA and was fatally shot at an event at a Utah college earlier this month.
After someone questioned Dunbar, he replied, “you’ll see tmr I jus wouldn’t advise tryna stop a ford 250 Diesel truck. Show yall how much Charlie really means,” according to the affidavit.
Officers with the San Antonio and Universal City police departments conducted a welfare check at Dunbar’s home. He told officers he understood why they wanted to speak with him and admitted to posting the comments.
He said he was “being dumb” and saw it as “clowning around,” the affidavit states
When asked if his comments were worth facing criminal charges, Dunbar said, “if that’s what it takes, I did what I did and I can take the consequences.”
He was booked into the Bexar County Adult Detention Center on a $40,000 bond.
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