Self-proclaimed Incel plotted the murder of 3,000 Ohio students

Tres Genco, a 22-year-old Ohio man and self-proclaimed Incel, could be sentenced to life in prison for his conspiracy to murder thousands in a mass shooting against young sorority women.

This week Genco pleaded guilty, a year after he was indicted by a grand jury and charged with attempted hate crime and unlawful possession of a machine gun. As part of his pleading, he admitted possession of two firearms. according to a expression by the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Ohio, Genco identified himself as Incel and targeted an unnamed Ohio university in 2020 with intent to murder women. That Cincinnati Inquirer reported that the school was Ohio State University.

In addition to the federal charges, Genco has been convicted at the state level and has previously served 17 months in prison on terrorist threats, the authorities said requester. He was arrested in March 2020 after someone who knew him called the police and revealed he posed a threat to himself and others. On the night of the arrest, when investigators first discovered the manifesto and the firearms, local law enforcement contacted the FBI, according to District Attorney Anneka Collins. It took 15 months and a separate judgment before Genco was charged at the federal level. Worse, he had reportedly applied to a community college after his release from prison.

“Genco has devised a conspiracy to murder women and intends to carry it out. Our federal and local law enforcement partners prevented that from happening.” Kenneth L Parker, United States of AmericaAttorney for the Southern District of Ohio, said.

During an investigation, law enforcement officials discovered Genco’s manifesto, in which He explained his desire to have “big aims” in relation to the mass shooting. His goal? killing 3,000 women. Genco stated he intended to “slaughter” women “out of hate, jealousy and revenge” and called death a “great leveler”.

According to prosecutors, when officers searched Genco’s car, they also found a gun with an attached buttstock, several loaded magazines, body armor and boxes of ammunition. An examination of Genco’s electronics found that on the day he allegedly wrote the manifesto, his internet history showed that he had been looking for sororities and a specific university in the state, authorities said. Additionally, Genco’s manifesto referred to the 2014 mass shooting carried out by Elliot Rodger – the 22-Year-old who six killed and wounded 13 outside a sorority home in Santa Barbara. Genco’s scheduled filming date was the same as Rodger’s.

But that wasn’t Genco’s only reference to Rodger: Court documents revealed that from July 2019 to March 2020, Genco often posted to a popular site promoting incels. One post detailed how “foids and pairs” were sprayed with a water gun filled with orange juice. “Foids” refers to the shortened version of “Femoids”, an incel term for women. Disturbing Rodgers manifest This included how he also sprayed orange juice from a super soaker at “popular college kids.”

Genco’s surveillance of the undisclosed University of Ohio reportedly took place in January 2020, the same month court documents noted that he wrote a document he called “Isolated” and signed “Your hopeful friend and killer.” His thoughts, he described, were “deluded and murderous.”