Tesla co-founder and CEO Elon Musk presents the all-electric Cybertruck at the Tesla Design Center in Hawthorne (Los Angeles County) in 2019. A Florida man was arrested for allegedly threatening to carry out a “mass casualty attack” at an event in Texas. New pickup launch.
Frederick J. Brown/Getty Images 2019Authorities have arrested a Florida man who they said threatened to carry out a “mass casualty attack” at an event in Texas to launch Tesla’s new Cybertruck pickup trucks.
Paul Ryan Overeem, 28, of Orlando, said in an Instagram group chat that he planned to kill people at a public event on Thursday, police said. San Antonio Express News. He was arrested on Wednesday in Travis County, where Tesla’s factory is located outside Austin, a day before the event.
Tesla was notified on November 10 about the group chat and reported it to law enforcement, according to the British newspaper “Daily Mail”. Austin American-Statesman. The newspaper added that investigators summoned Instagram to determine who was sending the messages.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk personally delivered several Cybertrucks to buyers on Thursday. The arrest warrant authorizing Overeem’s arrest did not mention whether Musk was a target or not, according to the American website “Space”. nbc.
Musk also heads the social media platform Xformerly known as Twitter, is headquartered in San Francisco.
Overeem was charged with making terroristic threats, a felony, according to the Express-News. He was being held in Travis County on $300,000 bail.
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