William Kohles, 42, has been charged with a felony count of threatening a public official after he allegedly sent a message in which he repeatedly threatened to shoot Lightfoot if she didn’t reduce crime in the city.
A Michigan man upset over crime rates in Chicago allegedly wrote a threatening message to Mayor Lori Lightfoot in which he claimed he would shoot the mayor.
According to Assistant State’s Attorney Lorraine Scaduto, on Sept. 23, an employee at Chicago’s 311 call center received a threatening message that had been sent through the portal on Lightfoot’s official webpage. Scaduto said the message included other insults and a racial slur directed at Lightfoot, before concluding: “And I advise you don’t hire any extra security because they won’t even know what’s coming when I shoot your ass because it will be unexpected at the time it happens.”
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