Overview
- Federal prosecutors charged Timothy Holmes, 31, with sending a true threat in interstate commerce after he posted "I'm going to shoot up a synagogue" in reply to Israel’s official X account.
- Investigators say the post followed reports of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s killing, which Holmes referenced in replies to the Israeli account.
- The FBI linked the @MapleStCapital account to Holmes’ Chicago apartment through its IP address and documented other antisemitic posts, including a U.S. address for an Israeli official’s relative.
- Airline records show Holmes flew to Florida, where agents arrested him and a judge in Fort Myers released him on a $100,000 bond with electronic monitoring.
- Release terms bar firearms and social or chat platforms, allow monitoring of his devices, and limit travel to the Northern District of Illinois and the Middle District of Florida while the case proceeds in Chicago.