A U.S. Army soldier has been arrested and charged after allegedly threatening to walk into a synagogue with an assault rifle and "kill every single Jew," federal prosecutors announced on April 27.
Jakob Marcoulier, 22, a soldier stationed at Fort Polk Army base in west-central Louisiana, was charged with transmitting a threat in interstate commerce, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Louisiana. Online inmate records show that Marcoulier was arrested on April 23 and booked into the Rapides Parish Detention Center in Alexandria, Louisiana.
Prosecutors accused Marcoulier of telling people through voice messages on Discord, an online messaging platform, about his plans to "kill Jewish people in a synagogue." The FBI’s National Threat Operations Center received an online tip in February about a Discord user who had made threats, and the agency obtained audio recordings from the platform, according to court documents.
The Discord user, who was later identified as Marcoulier, could be heard saying in the audio recordings that after his deployment, "if the Jews still have reign over our government, I am going to walk into a synagogue with my AK" and "kill every single Jew I know inside of that synagogue," prosecutors said.
