Brooklyn ‘incel,’ offended at vegan lifestyle, threatened mass taking pictures, stabbing at upstate Woodstock Fruit Pageant, say feds

A Brooklyn “incel” with a grudge towards the vegan group threatened a mass capturing at the upstate Woodstock Fruit Pageant if its organizers didn’t cancel the party or reduce individuals he hated from attending, the feds say.

William Swift, 32, made his threats in e-mails and audio recordings to one particular of the week-extensive festival’s organizers, telling her in just one chilling information, “The excellent matter would be to go up to Woodstock to shoot up…the Jewish meet up. That would be excellent,” according to court docket filings.

Federal authorities arrested Swift on Tuesday morning, and he was slated to appear before a Brooklyn federal courtroom magistrate just later on in the working day.

The festival, which runs from Aug. 21 by way of Aug. 28 at Camp Walden in Diamond Position, N.Y., costs itself as a lakeside “vegan health retreat” and “an all-out celebration of well being, fruit-dependent diet program and personal expansion.”

Swift started off his campaign towards the lady who operates the pageant in February by warning her in an e-mail not to enable two males related with the party to go to, in accordance to a federal criticism.

The messages escalated following that, court docket paperwork point out.

“Yeah none of them can go to Woodstock, if I see them at Woodstock on the web I’ll go to Woodstock with a gun and just shoot them or whoever else is in my way…not you, I’ll in no way shoot you, still,” Swift stated in a person information.

“I hope they all do arrive so I get to go up and shoot absolutely everyone,” he reported in a different.

He also threatened to stab folks “with my authorized pocketknife” if the competition went on as prepared, and threatened to “do a f—ing Ted Bundy” to the organizer, who’s discovered in courtroom paperwork as Jane Doe.

“I’m sorry to say this but I simply cannot cease fantasizing about undertaking quite, pretty, extremely undesirable things to you, I really don’t have a prepare I just fantasize about accomplishing very, quite terrible things to you,” Swift claimed, according to the complaint. He also threatened to get rid of her if she went to the law enforcement, the feds allege.

“If they basically did arrest me, I seriously would destroy her,” he stated in a text information, boasting afterwards that he “shut down the drag queen exhibit for kids” at a health pageant.

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