How a fantasy football feud went psycho with fake mass shooting threat sent to Norway, fake bomb threat sent to US college



What began as a fantasy football feud ended with a Pennsylvania man pleading guilty to federal felony charges in connection with a fake mass shooting threat that crossed international borders and a fake domestic bomb threat.

Matthew Gabriel of Philadelphia got into an argument with a member of his fantasy football league in a group chat in August 2023. After learning his league-mate was traveling to Norway to study abroad, Gabriel allegedly submitted an anonymous online tip to the Norwegian Police Security Service.

'His actions were extremely disruptive and consumed significant law enforcement resources on two continents, diverting them from actual incidents and investigations.'

The tip read: "On August 15th a man named [Victim 1] is headed around Oslo and has a shooting planned with multiple people on his side involved. They plan to take as many as they can at a concert and then head to a department store. I don’t know any more people then [sic] that."

The tipster added, "I just can’t have random people dying on my conscience. He plans to arrive there unarmed spend a couple days normal and then execute the attack. Please be ready. He is around a 5 foot 7 read [sic] head coming from America, on the 10th or 11th I believe. He should have weapons with him. Please be careful."

Law enforcement in Norway and the United States spent more than 900 investigative hours over a five-day span, according to the New York Post.

When interviewed by the FBI, Gabriel allegedly admitted that he had submitted the tip and that he had fabricated the mass shooting threat.

Despite prosecutors filing federal charges for the first phony tip, Gabriel “inexplicably” fabricated a bomb threat to frame the fantasy football league member.

United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero stated, “While already being prosecuted for one hoax threat spurred by, of all things, his fantasy football league, Matthew Gabriel inexplicably decided to send another.”

In March 2024, the University of Iowa received an email with the subject line “Possible Threat.”

"Hello, I saw this in a group chat I’m in and just want to make sure everyone is safe and fine," the email began. "I don’t want anything bad to happen to anybody. Thank you. A man named [PERSON 1] from I believe Nebraska sent this, and I want to make sure that it is a joke and no one will get hurt."

The email contained a screenshot of a fantasy football group message that read: “Hello University of Iowa a man named [Victim 1] told me he was gonna blow up the school.”

The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania stated in a press release, "Gabriel knew that the victim was not going to blow up the university and that the message had been sent in jest by another member of the fantasy football group regarding Gabriel’s prior threat. Despite knowing that there was no actual threat to the University of Iowa, the defendant transmitted the email knowing that the University of Iowa would view it as a true threat."

Gabriel’s attorney, Lonny Fish, told the Philadelphia Inquirer on Wednesday, “It was just a practical joke. It probably went a little further than it was meant to go.”

On Wednesday, the 25-year-old pleaded guilty to two felony counts of transmitting interstate threats — each punishable by up to five years in prison.

Gabriel is set to be sentenced in January, and prosecutors agreed to recommend a 15-month house arrest sentence and three years of probation.

“This guy is fortunate as hell to get house arrest,” Fish said of his client. “I wouldn’t recommend anyone else do this and expect to get the same result.”

U.S. Attorney Romero said, “His actions were extremely disruptive and consumed significant law enforcement resources on two continents, diverting them from actual incidents and investigations. Hoax threats aren’t a joke or protected speech, they’re a crime. My advice to keyboard warriors who’d like to avoid federal charges: always think of the potential consequences before you hit ‘post’ or ‘send.’”

Wayne A. Jacobs, special agent in charge of FBI Philadelphia, declared, “You do not get to express emotions through violence or threats of violence. We thank our international partners for their assistance in bringing together this case."

What sparked the fantasy football league feud was not revealed.

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‘Why do we have an FBI?’: Georgia school shooter was on FBI’s radar months before attack



Not surprisingly, the shooter behind the Apalachee High School shooting was on the FBI’s radar.

A day after Colt Gray was charged with murder, the father of the 14-year-old shooter was charged with four counts of manslaughter, two counts of second-degree murder, and eight counts of cruelty to children.

“My first thought was crimes that the son commits, you don’t hold the father for. Crimes of the father, you don’t hold on the son. That was my first reaction, like what are we doing?” Glenn Beck asks.

The charges came after it was revealed that the father purchased an AR-15 style rifle to give to his son as a Christmas gift last year.

“I got my first gun from my grandfather when I was like, 12,” Glenn comments in disbelief, adding, “Now I’m thinking to myself, this is another way to get guns.”

However, the case is more complicated than meets the eye, as authorities reportedly visited the pair before the father gifted his son the gun after receiving tips about online school shooting threats.

“This is the information that the FBI had months before the shooting,” Glenn says, noting that the mother has a lengthy rap sheet, including abuse of her children. The shooter’s aunt, Annie Brown, also told the Washington Post that her nephew was struggling with mental health issues and had been “begging for help from everyone around him.”

“So I want to ask. Why do we have an FBI? Why do we have one? You know they’re spying on us illegally for our own safety, but I don’t think it is for our safety, you know, cause they’re not protecting us,” he says, explaining that many of the shooters who carried out mass shootings were also already on the FBI’s radar.

“FBI missed signals in four mass shootings. What the hell are they doing?” Glenn asks.


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NEW report: Apalachee gunman allegedly posted about mass shooting plan because of 'lack of trans acceptance'



Last week, on September 4, 14-year-old Colt Gray opened fire on his classmates and teachers at Apalachee High School in Statham, Georgia. The tragedy left two students and two teachers dead. Colin Gray, Colt’s father, has also been arrested and charged.

This information is all out in the open and being discussed on virtually every news platform.

However, it’s not the full story.

Sara Gonzales has details about the tragedy that are undoubtedly being downplayed or even covered up by the corrupt mainstream media.

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“According to Andy Ngo on Twitter, law enforcement sources speaking to CNN reveal that the Discord account belonging to the Georgia mass school shooting suspect allegedly had posts about plans for a mass shooting over grievances about the lack of trans acceptance,” she reports.

“So plan on this story getting no coverage now,” adds Grant Stinchfield, host of "Stinchfield Tonight."

“Can we now go to all the people that coerced him and mind-polluted him and caused him to fall off the cliff and told him he can pick his gender? ... All of them are culpable,” says Jaco Booyens, host of "The Bottom Line.”

Sara then points to the Covenant School shooter, whose manifesto was recently leaked after being kept under lock and key for well over a year because the shooter was trans and her journal proved the shooter’s violence was directly tied to radical leftist ideologies.

“You're not allowed to ask questions once we find out that [the shooter is] part of the special interest group,” she says, condemning the mainstream media’s decision to “just disappear things” when they don’t fit the accepted narrative.

“It is amazing the sheer number of these mass shooters that are now identifying themselves as trans individuals,” says Stinchfield.

“It’s a social engineering project. ... This is how you break a nation,” says Booyens.

To hear more of the conversation, watch the episode above.

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PROOF: Biden-Harris EXPLOIT Apalachee tragedy to TAKE your guns



When there’s a tragedy, there is a politician exploiting the tragedy to push their political agenda — and the Apalachee High School shooting in Georgia is no different.

The horror began when a 14-year-old student shot and killed two students, Christian Angulo and Mason Schermerhorn, and two teachers, Christina Irimie and Richard Aspinwall.

Upon further investigation, the police have reported that the shooter was clearly obsessed with mass shootings, specifically the Parkland school shooting in 2018, which left 17 people dead.

Now, the Biden administration is using the shooting to suggest that guns need to be taken out of the hands of citizens and placed only in the arms of the government.

Sara Gonzales of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered” couldn’t disagree more.

“Obviously, if you’re paying attention, you know that murder is illegal. You know that schools are gun-free zones, and you can’t make murder more illegal, okay? It’s already illegal, and bad people are going to do really bad things. So, the least we can do for our kids is provide meaningful security for them,” Gonzales says.

The Apalachee High School was outfitted with an armed School Resources Officer, and the damage might have been much worse had they not been on the scene.

However, Kamala Harris has gone on record claiming that our schools need to be “demilitarized” and police officers don’t belong in them.

“Eliminating police officers, school resource officers, from the schools will do nothing except make our children sitting ducks. And Kamala says she wants to demilitarize,” Gonzales says.

Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre wasted no time using this moment to capitalize on the Biden administration's agenda, telling Americans that “we need universal background checks” and to “ban assault weapons.”

“The bodies aren’t even cold, yet let’s not waste a moment of our time to grandstand, to take away your Second Amendment rights,” Gonzales comments.


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9 injured, including 2 children, during shooting at Michigan recreation center, shooter dead



At least nine people were injured, including two children, during a mass shooting on Saturday at a recreation center in Rochester Hills, Michigan. Police said the suspected shooter is dead.

Around 5:11 p.m., first responders were notified of the incident at the Brooklands Plaza Splash Pad.

By the time police responded, the shooting suspect had fled.

The shooter was approximately 20 feet from the victims when he opened fire, according to investigators. The shooter reportedly unleashed 28 shots at the recreation center.

Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard said during a Saturday night press conference, "It appears the individual pulled up, exited a vehicle, approached the splash pad, opened fire. Reloaded. Opened fire. Reloaded. Left. It was very random. At this point, there is no connectivity to the victims."

However, the suspect reportedly left a 9mm Glock handgun and three empty magazines at the crime scene.

"The one weapon on scene led us to the address that was registered to that address, which is why we got so quickly to the home," Bouchard said.

Police tracked the alleged shooter to a residence in Shelby Township – about a half mile from the crime scene.

Law enforcement was unsuccessful in making contact with the suspected shooter in the home.

"We brought in assets including our SWAT, our helicopter, our drones and tried to make contact with the person, tried to bring that person out peacefully and to no avail, had no contact back,” Bouchard stated.

Officers then breached the residence, and drones were deployed to assess the situation inside the house.

The suspect is believed to have committed suicide inside the home.

Police said, "We located the individual deceased in the home."

Bouchard said there was another weapon on the kitchen table inside the home, which appeared to be a semi-automatic 223.

Police have yet to identify the 42-year-old male shooting suspect. He allegedly lived with his mother.

Of the nine shooting victims, two are children. An 8-year-old boy is in critical condition after suffering a gunshot wound to the head. A 4-year-old sustained a wound to the thigh and is said to be in stable condition.

The 39-year-old mother of the boys was shot in the abdomen and leg; she is also in critical condition.

The six other shooting victims – three women and three men between 30 and 78 years old – were reportedly in stable condition.

Sheriff Bouchard said the shooting is a "gut punch" because the community is still reeling from a high school shooting that killed four students in nearby Oxford that happened in 2021

"We’re not even fully comprehending what happened at Oxford, and now we have another complete tragedy that we’re dealing with," he explained. "In my worst nightmare, I couldn’t imagine standing up here again talking about another active shooter."

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Black ex-Marine allegedly threatened to gun down white people like a 'serial killer': 'NEVER understand my struggles'



A black former Marine remains in a New Jersey jail on a federal charge after he repeatedly threatened to kill white people en masse, the Department of Justice says.

'This is why people like me shoot people.'

From December 2022 until at least May 2023, 23-year-old Joshua Cobb of Trenton, New Jersey, repeatedly sent text messages and posted social media messages that threatened to harm white people, a DOJ press release indicated. The press release shared several messages reportedly written by Cobb that reveal a strong hatred for humanity in general and white people in particular.

The following are just some of the messages attributed to Cobb:

  • "I want to cause mayhem on the white community. The reason I specifically want to target white people is because as a black male, they will NEVER understand my struggles. Same way I will never understand their struggles, but I don’t care to. I want to erase them. All of them really, but in this case as many as I possibly can. As of today I have officially began planning my attack. ... I have not chosen a exact date but I am going to be sure it is close to an important holiday to their race."
  • "Tbh I hope I do progress into a serial killer because I f***ing hate life man. ... But one day everyone will suffer. I promise I will make everyone feel my f***ing pain. My deep, sincere, raw, & sharp pain."
  • "It’s all a f***ing game and you all are going to die. I currently lack the means necessary to kill as many as I intend to but one day I will have the available resources (finance) to purchase the appropriate weaponry for my killing(s)."
  • "I’m just leaving evidence for whoever investigates my case."

Some of those messages were allegedly sent via text. Others were allegedly shared on social media under the username 1dayUsuffer. No such account currently exists on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, or X.

In speaking with law enforcement, Cobb allegedly admitted to writing at least some of the threatening messages and to planning a mass attack. He reportedly identified a Jersey Strong gym and an Aldi grocery store in Robbinsville, New Jersey, as two possible locations.

Cobb also reportedly expressed admiration for some white serial killers and indicated he felt a connection with them. He allegedly told investigators he respected the racist white shooter who gunned down black people in a Buffalo grocery store for his "element of surprise and style." He likewise claimed to have felt the white Parkland shooter's "pain."

When investigators told Cobb they would seize his digital devices, Cobb allegedly responded, "These are the things that make someone want to do the things we talked about." Cobb also allegedly told another Marine, "This is why people like me shoot people."

Cobb joined the Marines sometime in 2023 and completed basic training last June. He was stationed in California until he was discharged last week. He is believed to have made most, if not all, of the threatening messages from his home in New Jersey.

Cobb was arrested last Friday and charged with one count of transmitting a threat in interstate and foreign commerce, a federal offense that carries a sentence of up to five years in prison and $250,000. He remains in custody at the Monmouth County jail without bond. He has another hearing scheduled for Friday.

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