A suburban Seattle man has been arrested and accused of threatening to shoot Black customers at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, according to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court.
Joey George, the 37-year-old Seattle man, is charged with making interstate threats and is scheduled to appear in court Friday afternoon, The Seattle Times reported. George phoned a Buffalo grocery store twice in July threatening to shoot Black people in the store and ranting about a"race war," the complaint said.On May 14, a shooter killed 10 Black people and hurt several others at Tops Friendly Supermarket in Buffalo.
Prosecutors said George is also being charged in connection with a May call to a restaurant in San Bruno, California, in which he allegedly threatened to shoot Black and Hispanic patrons, and with making other threatening calls to businesses in Maryland, Connecticut and Washington over the last year."George allegedly used racial slurs and threats to shoot customers at the businesses because of his racial hatred," according to Western District of Washington prosecutors.
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