Kevin Day Dunlow, of Huntington Beach, Calif., who faced up to 10 years in prison for threatening to murder Jews, was sentenced to more than a year, the U.S. Justice Department stated on Friday.
The 62-year-old was also sentenced to six subsequent years of home confinement and three years of supervised release for making “numerous” threats against “multiple” people and entities between May and May 16, 2024, the Justice Department said.
Those included “an elected official, members of law enforcement, a church located in northeastern North Carolina and two synagogues located in Raleigh and Durham,” it added.
He called a rabbi just before evening services on May 10, 2024 and said that “Jews didn’t deserve to live. Jews didn’t deserve to be on this earth. I’m going to kill the Jews. I’m coming to the Temple to kill all the Jews and the children,” per court documents.
Daniel Bubar, acting U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, stated that “threats of violence against the Jewish community and law enforcement officials are not only despicable, they are also a grave federal crime that we take seriously.”
