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A man has been arrested for making death threats against GOP Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene.
The man said in the call, “I’m going to kill her next week. I’m going to murder her…You don’t think you’re going to get payback? You’re going to die. Your family is going to die.”
The man has been identified as 34-year-old Sean Patrick Cirillo.
A Macon man is now facing charges after he called Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene’s office and threatened to kill her, according to her office.
Video of the call shared with Channel 2 Action News the man can be heard claiming he has a sniper rifle and is going to shoot the Republican congresswoman in the head.
In the call, he claims to be a major donor before launching into an expletive-laden tirade.
“I’m going to kill her next week. I’m going to murder her,” he said. “You don’t think you’re going to get payback? You’re going to die. Your family is going to die.”
She released a statement.
She said she gets death threats almost daily.
“I want to thank every single member of law enforcement who acted swiftly in response to this murderous threat,” Greene said in a statement released by her office, WSB-TV reported. “From Rome City Police, the Floyd County Sheriff’s Office, U.S. Capitol Police, the House Sergeant at Arms, and ultimately the FBI who made the arrest, every official acted quickly to put this man behind bars.”
Greene, who was in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, added she receives death threats “on an almost daily basis” and that it “should never be tolerated.” She said she closed her district office in Dalton as a precaution.
