USPS worker arrested after alleged mass shooting threat against Texas Pride event, FBI says

A United States Postal Service (USPS) worker was arrested Sunday aft threatening connected societal media to perpetrate a wide shooting astatine a Pride parade successful Texas, the FBI announced connected Monday.

Michael Thompson, who resides successful Clovis, New Mexico, was taken into custody aft authorities received a extremity regarding a menace to behaviour a wide casualty onslaught astatine a Pride lawsuit successful Lubbock, Texas.

"This weekend’s apprehension retired of Lubbock, Texas, is the champion of this FBI and our instrumentality enforcement partners successful action—yet again stopping a perchance deadly onslaught acknowledgment to superb execution from our teams and partners," said FBI Director Kash Patel. "Our agents, intel teams, and authorities and section partners retired of Texas acted decisively and stopped him earlier helium could act."

Thompson admitted to making and subsequently deleting the societal media posts, authorities said. He besides identified himself arsenic a USPS employee. Fox News Digital has reached retired to the USPS for comment.

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A antheral has been arrested for threatening to behaviour a wide shooting astatine a Pride lawsuit successful Lubbock, Texas, the FBI said Monday. (Axel Schmidt/Reuters)

Authorities said they recovered 4 firearms from Thompson's residence. He is legally prohibited from owning firearms owed to a anterior felony home unit conviction, according to the FBI.

Thompson is charged with being a felon successful possession of a firearm arsenic good arsenic transmitting threatening interstate communications.

"More lives saved acknowledgment to bully cops being cops," Patel added.

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Michael Thompson allegedly admitted to making and aboriginal deleting the posts, and authorities said they recovered 4 firearms from his residence. ( Roy Rochlin/Getty Images)

Investigators continued to interrogation Thompson connected Monday, and helium was expected to marque his archetypal tribunal quality aboriginal that day.

Lubbock hosted its LubbockPRIDE festival implicit the play without incident, according to section reports.

"Yesterday was filled with truthful overmuch love, fun, and community, and we couldn’t person asked for a amended celebration," organizers wrote connected Facebook pursuing the event. "Thank you to everyone who came retired and made it truthful special!"

Organizers of a large pridefulness lawsuit successful Lubbock, Texas, said the lawsuit went connected without immoderate issues. (AP)

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In a abstracted incidental successful Brunswick, Georgia, a antheral was arrested earlier this period aft constabulary said helium threatened to onslaught attendees astatine a section LGBTQ+ Pride event. Christopher Waller, 25, was charged with making terroristic threats stemming from comments posted successful a section Facebook radical connected June 9.