White Supremacist Was Planning a Church Shooting, Police Say

[Audrey Horne]

By ASSOCIATED PRESS March 1, 2018

(FLORENCE, S.C.) — A white supremacist faces up to 10 years in prison for illegally buying a gun authorities say he planned to use in a hate crime attack similar to the South Carolina church shootings.
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Authorities first began investigating McDowell in December 2016 when he threatened a Myrtle Beach synagogue on Facebook. Local officials were already keeping tabs on him because he made friends with white supremacists groups and got tattoos associated with racist groups while in prison on a felony burglary charge, according to the FBI.

McDowell then said he wanted a gun and told an undercover FBI agent who offered to get him one that he planned to attack somewhere in the name of white power and write on the building “in the spirit of Dylann Roof,” according to court records. . . .

“I seen what Dylann Roof did and in my heart I reckon I got a little bit of hatred,” the undercover agent recalled McDowell saying.
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http://time.com/5181256/benjamin-mcdowell-white-supremacist-church-shooting/

 

[ZoriahNZ]

Thank goodness the FBI got him before he could carry out his sick desire.