Virginia Man Charged With Threatening to Kill VP Kamala Harris

The FBI stated that it discovered numerous threatening posts on social media by the same user targeting several public officials.

Vice President and 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris walks to deliver remarks before departing George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas, on Aug. 1, 2024. Mark Felix/AFP via Getty Images

A Virginia man was arrested on Aug. 2 after allegedly making multiple violent threats against Vice President Kamala Harris on the social media platform GETTR.

Frank Lucio Carillo, of Winchester, Virginia, was charged with violating 18 U.S.C. § 871, which criminalizes threats to harm or kill the president, vice president, or other officials in the line of succession, according to the criminal complaint and arrest warrant filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia on Aug. 2.