
Feds Charge Transgender Suspect With Threatening Repeat of Covenant School Shooting and Other Threats
Federal authorities arrested a transgender-identifying male suspect this month on multiple charges of communicating violent interstate threats, including threatening to replicate the March 27 shooting at a Christian private school in Nashville, Tennessee. Authorities arrested Jason Lee Willie, who goes by Alexia Willie, on Nov. 8 on 14 counts of communicating interstate threats to cause injury. According to the indictment, the defendant made calls with numerous users of an online video-chatting platform, MeetMe, during which the defendant allegedly communicated threats to sexually accost children, injure and kill children, and violently attack others. According to a Nov. 10 proffer of evidence in support of a prosecution motion to detain the defendant, MeetMe’s parent company contacted the FBI National Threat Operation Section on Aug. 14 to alert them to the various threatening comments the defendant allegedly made on the platform....
