A 40-year-old man was arrested early Wednesday on suspicion of plotting to attack the Texas state capitol, authorities said.
The Texas department of public safety said in a statement that it received “credible information about an individual planning a violent attack” for Thursday in Austin.
Benny Caldera Jr told a friend, “I am going to the Capitol and I am going to shoot it up,” according to an arrest warrant affidavit obtained by NBC 5 DFW.
“I love you, if you don’t see me again,” Caldera allegedly told the friend, police wrote in the arrest documents.
Caldera had expressed anger over the American Israeli
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