Molas, of RAND Europe, says Martin’s alleged path from extortion to soliciting a murder traces a well-recognized path of transgressive habits usually seen in Com/764’s on-line world. “They’ll begin with little acts of sin—shoplifting, then robberies, abuse of minors, weapons violations, then all the way in which as much as kidnapping and homicide,” Molas says.
In mid-February, Jairo Tinajero, a 25-year-old Arkansas man who took half within the 764 splinter group 8884, pleaded responsible to CSAM and conspiracy fees for extorting an underage woman in Louisville, Kentucky. In keeping with his plea settlement, Tinajero confessed to plotting to kill the woman as soon as she stopped complying with him, posting her handle and private details about her and her household household in 764’s servers, unsuccessfully making an attempt to purchase an assault rifle, and speaking by a homicide plot with different 764 members.
Tinajero additionally admitted participating in 764 on-line chats the place prior mass casualty assaults had been mentioned together with “future assaults on closely populated areas equivalent to malls or different massive gatherings, LGBTQ+ occasions and gatherings, colleges, public locations, authorities buildings and police stations” with the intent to “destabilize society and trigger the collapse of governments and rule of regulation.”
Most not too long ago, neo-Nazi Aidan Harding’s inspiration from 764 was introduced up throughout a mid-February federal court docket listening to for CSAM possession fees. Along with taking part in public actions with quite a lot of Pittsburgh-area extremist teams, prosecutors claimed that Harding and one other man had been deeply within the Columbine bloodbath, visiting the memorial in Littleton, Colorado, and posing for a photograph in entrance of a swastika flag whereas dressed as Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris. “Eric and Dylan had been kickstarting a revolution,” Harding wrote in a message, which prosecutors confirmed in court docket. Harding and the opposite man, who hasn’t been charged, additionally mentioned finishing up mass shootings by Instagram direct messages, which had been introduced in court docket. “The one factor holding me again is a companion … I don’t wish to do it alone or die alone,” Harding wrote.
In keeping with two researchers who attended Harding’s three-and-a-half-hour court docket look associated to possible trigger on February 12, an FBI agent claimed throughout questioning that investigators discovered reams of movies depicting kids being raped, ultraviolent movies of executions, and the extremist mass shootings in Buffalo, Nashville, and Columbine, together with a photograph on Harding’s telephone of a phrase daubed in blood: “I bought my soul to 764,” above a swastika and a Lviathan cross usually utilized by 764. One other photograph, handed as much as the choose and never proven in court docket, depicted the bare chest of a younger woman carrying a cross, with the phrases “No Lives Matter” carved into her physique with a pointy instrument.” Harding has pleaded not responsible.
The crimes described in court docket circumstances this 12 months observe a months-long surge in No Lives Matter–associated violence. In October, authorities declare, a 14-year-old Swede dedicated eight assaults on unsuspecting passersby in Stockholm. The attacker, per nationwide broadcaster SVT, took half in 764 and glided by the deal with “Slain” within the group. Paperwork circulated by 764 contributors on Telegram and elsewhere declare “Slain764” as certainly one of their very own, and establish Sweden, the UK, and Bulgaria as nations the place their group has a presence.
