A 37-year-old Tennessee man was indicted for making threats on social media against President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Barack Obama, according to a Justice Department press release.
Kyl Alton Hall was indicted on Tuesday on two counts of threatening a sitting president or vice president and one count of threatening a former president. According to the DOJ, each charge is punishable by up to five years in prison.
Authorities say the threats originated on the social media platform X. A Memphis-area man allegedly threatened to “kill, murder, shoot and crash” Biden. He also threatened to assassinate Harris and Obama.
The case was investigated by the US Secret Service and is being prosecuted by the National Security and Civil Rights Unit of the US Attorney’s Office.
A spokesman for the Secret Service did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The charges come the same week that all three officials — Biden, Harris and Obama — appeared in Chicago to speak at the Democratic National Convention, where Harris accepted his party’s presidential nomination.
This article was originally published on NBCNews.com
