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Elijah Alexander King, 36, went by \u201cBilly Badass\u201d online when he allegedly threatened to bomb synagogues. San Luis Obispo County District Attorney\u0092s Office<\/p>\nA California man who went by \u201cBilly Badass\u201d on social media allegedly threatened to bomb every synagogue within a 20-mile radius \u2014 then doubled down with more antisemitic rants even after cops threw him in a psychiatric hold.<\/p>\n
Elijah Alexander King, 36, of San Luis Obispo, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to federal charges stemming from his August rampage of hate that has him staring down a decade behind bars.<\/p>\n
Elijah Alexander King, 36, went by \u201cBilly Badass\u201d online when he allegedly threatened to bomb synagogues. San Luis Obispo County District Attorney\u0092s Office<\/p>\n
King used his \u201cBilly Badass\u201d X account to spew the hate messages on Aug. 28. \u201cI\u2019m gonna blow up every synagogue in a 20-mile radius,\u201d King threatened according to federal prosecutors.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a real threat send the police and report me for terrorism,\u201d said a second messaged ten minutes later. King then searched for synagogues nearby on his cellphone, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n
Police found King and had him check into a psychiatric hospital for monitoring where he continued to spew hate from the \u201cBilly Badass\u201d handle, states.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\u201cI got arrested and put on a 3 day psych hold for my posts against the jews,\u201d King wrote before re-posting, \u201c[w]e don\u2019t need gun control. We need jew control,\u201d according to U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California Bill Essayli\u2019s office. <\/p>\n
This wasn\u2019t the first time King made antisemitic comments on his social media page, which included praising Adolf Hitler and posting pictures of handguns, knives and mace.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In the months following his release from the psychiatric hospital, King called and emailed the police detectives who had him evaluated, leaving then racist voicemails, Essayli\u2019s office said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
King is facing a maximum of 10 years in federal prison if convicted. He faces an additional five years for the threats made by interstate communication and false information and hoaxes counts.\u00a0His trail date is scheduled for Jan. 13, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A California man who went by \u201cBilly Badass\u201d on social media allegedly threatened to bomb every synagogue within…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3629,3794,7,9,8,3586],"class_list":["post-71187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-antisemitism","tag-bomb-threats","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}