HOPKINSVILLE, KY (CHRISTIAN COUNTY NOW) – A Pembroke man was arrested Monday morning after threatening his workplace and several other acts of violence on social media.
29-year-old Jonathan Risner was taken into custody by Hopkinsville Police on May 4 just before noon in reference to threats made on Facebook. In an arrest report, HPD said he intentionally threatened to commit an act of violence, stating that he would shoot up his place of employment of Martinrea in Hopkinsville, located on Frank Yost Lane.
“I wish I could facilitate some terrorist acts,” said Risner at the beginning of a 15-minute live video on his public Facebook page the morning of May 4 which was littered with racial slurs and violent language. In it, he mentioned his time serving in the military and referred to himself as an “assassin” before describing graphic ways he would inflict violence. Risner expressed frustrations with the VA Clinic in Hopkinsville among other things.
Other posts made on his Facebook page express varying sentiments in the same vein. One post from May 1 said in part, “I love terrorism and genuinely, authentically cause for more acts to be done in spite of my active suffering…I wish to see more murders, significantly more, on newsbreak casually at my leisure when I get home from work in the following weeks.”
Risner is currently housed at Christian County Jail and is being charged with terroristic threatening.
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