San Antonio teen threatened ‘day of retribution’ at Turning Point conservative convention in Florida: FBI

A 19-year-old San Antonio man with reported ties to far-right commentator Nick Fuentes planned to attack a conservative student conference in Florida, according to officials.

Alejandro Richard Velasquez Gomez, linked by the FBI to the incel, or “involuntary celibate,” movement, has been charged with one count of making threatening interstate communications and one count of possession of child pornography, according to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas.

Velasquez Gomez is allegedly behind a July 18 Instagram post from user @LatinoZoomerPolitics that threatened a “day of retribution” on July 22, the same day as the three-day Turning Point USA conference began in Tampa, Fla.

“I will have revenge against all of humanity which all of you will pay for my suffering,” the message read. “SAS will be the turning point of the LatinoZoomer lore.”

Alejandro Richard Velasquez Gomez has been charged with making threatening interstate communications.

SAS, according to the FBI, likely corresponds to Turning Point USA’s Student Action Summit, which this year included former President Trump, Sen. Josh Hawley, Sen. Ted Cruz, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Rep. Lauren Boebert and Rep. Matt Gaetz.

The language is strikingly similar to a video by Elliot Rodger, an incel who killed six people, then himself, in Isla Vista, Calif., in May 2014. In the video, Rodger spoke out against the women who had rejected him, blaming them for his suffering.

“He explained to me that he intended the post to evoke Elliot Rodger and was familiar with Elliot Rodger due to extensive online research,” the FBI agent wrote in the criminal complaint.

After being alerted to the Instagram post, the Tampa Police Department obtained a warrant for Velasquez Gomez’s arrest and charged him with making written or electronic threats to kill, do bodily injury or conduct a mass shooting or an act of terrorism.

Velasquez Gomez

Investigators also found record of a flight Velasquez Gomez had booked from Austin to Tampa, which he canceled the day before the convention was scheduled to start.

San Antonio police arrested Velasquez Gomez and FBI searched his phone, which turned up multiple graphic photos of child pornography, according to the criminal complaint.

A motive for Velasquez Gomez’s alleged threats has not been revealed, but the San Antonio Express-News tied him to Fuentes who helped lead the “Stop the Steal” movement and has been branded a “white nationalist livestreamer” by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Fuentes was banned from a Turning Point event last year.

“For the record, Alejandro Velasquez had nothing to do with me or America First,” Fuentes wrote on Telegram Friday.

“As far as I’m aware he attended [Conservative Political Action Conference] Dallas last year where I briefly made an appearance. Claims on social media that he was part of our team in any way are completely untrue. Censorship, debanking and blacklisting didn’t work so now they lie.”