Long Island man charged with mailing shooting and bomb threats to LGBTQ+ organizations
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A 74-year-old man in Long Island was charged Monday for allegedly mailing threats to "assault, shoot, and bomb" members of the LGBTQ+ community and affiliated organizations, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York. Robert Fehring is accused of sending at least 60 threatening letters to organizers of Pride events and other groups over an eight-year period.
In one May 20 letter cited in the charging documents, Fehring allegedly warned that if the 2021 New York City Pride March was held as planned, "there will be radio-cont[r]olled devices placed at numerous strategic places, and firepower aimed at you from other strategic places."
"This will make the 2016 Orlando Pulse Nightclub shooting look like a cakewalk," he allegedly added.
