LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A person is accused of threatening staff at a Las Vegas on line casino and resort firm, together with its CEO, after it honored slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk, the 8 Information Now Investigators have discovered.
On Sept. 10, a gunman shot and killed Kirk, 31, throughout an occasion at a Utah college. Within the aftermath, Station Casinos memorialized Kirk on its marquees with a photograph and the message: “In loving memory of Charlie Kirk.”
On Friday, Sept. 12, a Station On line casino worker contacted police a couple of name from an individual complaining concerning the marquee memorials for Kirk.
“The caller stated that if the memorial was not removed from the marquee, then, ‘We would destroy the sign and take it down for us,’” in accordance with a report the 8 Information Now Investigators obtained.
FILE – Turning Level USA Founder Charlie Kirk arrives to talk earlier than Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump throughout a marketing campaign rally at Thomas & Mack Heart, Oct. 24, 2024, in Las Vegas. (AP Photograph/Alex Brandon, File)
The worker later acquired a second telephone name from the identical quantity, in accordance with the report. Through the name, the particular person stated, “Can you tell your boss there to take down that Charlie Kirk image on your sign? If you don’t do that, not only are we going to destroy your sign, we’re going to [expletive] and take out your CEO too.”
A safety worker stated the marquees honoring Kirk had been later “taken down as a result of the calls and other backlash,” in accordance with the report.
Officers with the Southern Nevada Counter Terrorism Heart found the quantity behind the telephone calls was registered to an utility that permits customers to create “burner” numbers.
Investigators later decided the particular person’s telephone was linked to an e mail account listed to Thomas “TJ” Fedikovich, 26, of Madison, Wisconsin, police stated. It was not instantly clear the place Fedikovich resides as police additionally famous the automotive he was driving on the time of his arrest was registered in California.
On Saturday, police visited a Henderson-area Starbucks location that Fedikovich frequents, they stated. Later that day, an worker referred to as police, alerting them that Fedikovich had positioned an order.
Henderson police later arrested Fedikovich on expenses of coercion with risk of bodily drive and harassment, information stated.
Fedikovich denied making the threats, police stated, including he deleted his social media accounts as officers tried to achieve him.
Throughout Fedikovich’s possible trigger listening to on Sunday, Henderson Justice Court docket Decide Barbara Schifalacqua set bail at $6,000. Schifalacqua ordered Fedikovich to avoid Sundown Station particularly and never contact any staff.
Fedikovich posted bond on Wednesday, although he remained jailed as of this text’s publication. It was not clear when he would subsequent seem in court docket.
Representatives for Station Casinos declined to remark.
