The post Man Threatens To Make Two Atlanta Gay Bars ‘The Next Orlando’ appeared first on Towleroad. Man upset by gender definitions threatened to bomb Merriam-Websters offices, federal prosecutors say. Atlanta Police Department public affairs director Elizabeth Espy told Georgia Voice that Edgerton has not been charged as of yet but remains under investigation. Local police, the FBI and Homeland Security took Edgerton in for questioning on Tuesday afternoon. On April 25, a tweet from the account said, “I like watching people.” Two days later, “Where will Brett Edgerton strike next? Which gay man will he harrass next in Midtown, Athens or elsewhere.” On April 16, he tweeted, “I will terrorize the gays in Atlanta. In April, a series of tweets from the same account also threatened LGBT people in Atlanta. That shooting, in which a Hispanic man was injured, was reported. You think I am the type to be the next ‘shooter’? Keep hating me then…” and “You are all dead to me.” His Twitter bio read “I will be your the last person you will see.” Four people died in the first shooting, at Young’s Asian Massage near Acworth, a northwest suburb of Atlanta, Mr. Identified as Brett Edgerton, the Twitter account has since been taken down.Įdgerton’s tweets read “TEN or Blake’s could be the next Orlando. A gay man in Atlanta, Georgia is being investigated by police after he posted tweets threatening to make two local gay bars “the next Orlando.”
