Women-hating manifesto tips off police to ‘incel’ mass-shooting plot
By Mark Gillispie
July 22, 2021 —
Cleveland— A man who identifies with a group that despises women appeared in federal court in Cincinnati on charges related to his plans to kill sorority members at an unidentified university in Ohio.
Tres Genco, 21, of Hillsboro, Ohio, is charged with an attempted hated crime and possession of a machine gun.
Federal prosecutors in a statement released on Wednesday (Thursday AEST) said Genco identifies himself as an “incel” — involuntary celibate — and has spent time participating in an online community of men hostile to women because they believe they are unjustly denied sexual or romantic attention.
Genco was active in the online incel sub-culture.
The statement points to a 2014 shooting committed by a self-identified incel named Elliot Rodger, who killed six people and injured 14 others outside a sorority house at the University of California, Santa Barbara, before killing himself.
According to prosecutors, Genco frequently posted on an incel website in 2019 and 2020. In one post, he wrote that he had used a squirt gun to spray “foids” in the face with orange juice, something Rodger had done before the Santa Barbara killings.
“Foids” is the shortened incel term for the hostile term “feminoid”.
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Court documents say Genco wrote a manifesto called “A Hideous Symphony,” which stated in part: “I will slaughter out of hatred, jealousy, and revenge…I will take away the power of life that they withhold from me”. He also allegedly signed a document “Your hopeful friend and murderer.”
Court documents allege the 21-year-old conducted surveillance at an Ohio university on January 15,
According to local acting US Attorney Vipal Patel, on the same day Genco allegedly searched online for topics including “planning a shooting crime” and “when does preparing for a crime become an attempt?”
Local police searched Genco’s home in March 2020 and found a firearm with an attached bump stock — which allows it to be rapidly fired — a pistol, loaded ammunition magazines, boxes of ammunition and body armor.
Messages seeking comment were left on Wednesday with Genco’s newly appointed public defender.
AP, staff
Ohio 'incel' charged with hate crime for plotting sorority mass shooting, officials say Tres Genco, 21, planned to shoot women at an Ohio university "out of hatred, jealousy and revenge," the Justice Department alleged.
July 21, 2021,
By Antonio Planas
An Ohio man whom authorities describe as an "incel" was arrested Wednesday and charged in federal court with attempting a hate crime by plotting to kill women in a mass shooting.
The Justice Department alleged in a statement that the man, Tres Genco, 21, of Hillsboro, Ohio, planned to shoot students at sororities at a university in Ohio. A grand jury indicted Genco on charges of attempting to commit a hate crime and unlawful possession of a machine gun, officials said.
During an investigation, law enforcement discovered a note indicating that Genco hoped to "aim big" and attain a kill count of 3,000 victims, officials alleged. Genco also wrote a manifesto, authorities said, in which he said he would "slaughter" women "out of hatred, jealousy and revenge."
An examination of Genco's electronics showed that on the day he is accused of having written the manifesto, he also searched online for sororities and a university in Ohio, authorities said. The university was not named.
Officials said Genco was part of the online "incel" community, a group of mostly men who harbor hostility toward women. Genco identified as an incel, or "involuntary celibate," officials said.
"Incels seek to commit violence in support of their belief that women unjustly deny them sexual or romantic attention to which they believe they are entitled," the statement read. "According to the indictment, Genco maintained profiles on a popular incel website from at least July 2019 through mid-March 2020. Genco was a frequent poster on the site."
Genco attended Army Basic Training at Fort Benning, Georgia, from August through December 2019, authorities said.
In 2019, he bought items that included tactical gloves, a bulletproof vest, a hoodie with the word "revenge" on it, a bowie knife, two Glock 17 magazines and a 9 mm Glock 17 clip, officials said.
The charging document, authorities said, alleges that Genco conducted surveillance at an Ohio university on Jan. 15, 2020. He is accused of having searched online for topics the same day. Officials said some topics were "how to plan a shooting crime" and "When does preparing for a crime become attempt?"
Neither Genco nor his relatives could immediately be reached for comment late Wednesday afternoon. It was unclear whether he had retained an attorney.
During a visit to an incel website, authorities said, Genco referred to Elliot Rodger, a known incel who killed six people and injured 14 others in May 2014. Some of Rodger's victims were shot outside a sorority house at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
The attempted hate crime charge carries a sentence of up to life in prison, officials said.
July 21, 2021,
By Antonio Planas
An Ohio man whom authorities describe as an "incel" was arrested Wednesday and charged in federal court with attempting a hate crime by plotting to kill women in a mass shooting.
The Justice Department alleged in a statement that the man, Tres Genco, 21, of Hillsboro, Ohio, planned to shoot students at sororities at a university in Ohio. A grand jury indicted Genco on charges of attempting to commit a hate crime and unlawful possession of a machine gun, officials said.
During an investigation, law enforcement discovered a note indicating that Genco hoped to "aim big" and attain a kill count of 3,000 victims, officials alleged. Genco also wrote a manifesto, authorities said, in which he said he would "slaughter" women "out of hatred, jealousy and revenge."
An examination of Genco's electronics showed that on the day he is accused of having written the manifesto, he also searched online for sororities and a university in Ohio, authorities said. The university was not named.
Officials said Genco was part of the online "incel" community, a group of mostly men who harbor hostility toward women. Genco identified as an incel, or "involuntary celibate," officials said.
"Incels seek to commit violence in support of their belief that women unjustly deny them sexual or romantic attention to which they believe they are entitled," the statement read. "According to the indictment, Genco maintained profiles on a popular incel website from at least July 2019 through mid-March 2020. Genco was a frequent poster on the site."
Genco attended Army Basic Training at Fort Benning, Georgia, from August through December 2019, authorities said.
In 2019, he bought items that included tactical gloves, a bulletproof vest, a hoodie with the word "revenge" on it, a bowie knife, two Glock 17 magazines and a 9 mm Glock 17 clip, officials said.
The charging document, authorities said, alleges that Genco conducted surveillance at an Ohio university on Jan. 15, 2020. He is accused of having searched online for topics the same day. Officials said some topics were "how to plan a shooting crime" and "When does preparing for a crime become attempt?"
Neither Genco nor his relatives could immediately be reached for comment late Wednesday afternoon. It was unclear whether he had retained an attorney.
During a visit to an incel website, authorities said, Genco referred to Elliot Rodger, a known incel who killed six people and injured 14 others in May 2014. Some of Rodger's victims were shot outside a sorority house at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
The attempted hate crime charge carries a sentence of up to life in prison, officials said.
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