An armed Utah man accused of making violent threats against President Joe Biden was shot and killed by FBI agents hours before the president landed in the state Wednesday, authorities said.
Special agents were trying to serve a warrant on the home of Craig Deleeuw Robertson in Provo, south of Salt Lake City, when the shooting happened at 6:15 a.m., the FBI said in a statement.
"There's no way that he was driving from here to Salt Lake City, setting up a rifle and taking a shot at the president -- 100 per cent no way," said neighbor Andrew Maunder outside the church across from Robertson's street. Robertson also referenced a "presidential assassination" and also posted threats against Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland and New York Attorney General Letitia James, authorities said.
Travis Lee Clark, who's known Robertson for years from working at their church ward together, described Robertson as "frail of health," a masterful woodworker and an "established icon" in their community. Robertson propped himself on a wood walking stick he'd carved himself, said Clark, who was surprised he was considered a serious threat.
State court records showed Robertson pleaded no contest to a disorderly conduct charge in 1998 but no details about the allegations were immediately available. In another undated social media post cited in the document, Robertson wrote: "Hey FBI, you still monitoring my social media? Checking so I can have a loaded gun handy in case you drop by again." A post from July 21 post unearthed by SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors online extremism, reads: "If I really told you what I'd like to do to Joe Biden Facebook would censor me and the FBI would pay me another visit.
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