A transgender woman has been charged with making threats after she allegedly vowed to murder and sexually assault schoolchildren.
Alexia Willie has been charged with 14 felony counts of interstate communication of a threat to injure, court records show, including one in which she referenced the March 2023 shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee. In videos and streams online, Willie threatened to repeat the actions of Aiden Hale, a former pupil at the school and transgender man who shot and killed three nine-year-old children and three staff members.
According to court filings made on November 7, Willie made a video in which she allegedly said: "A person in Tennessee walked into one of your schools and shot up a bunch of your Christian daughters. That's not the last of them if you don't shut your f***** mouth."
She made further threats against children. In one instance, without referencing who "we" is, saying: "We're coming for your children." She added: "While you're sitting out here talking your s***, we're not gonna come for you, we're gonna come for your f****** children. Do you understand me?"
Willie made several references to sexually assaulting children, some using language that is not appropriate for publication, but specifically made threats against "your daughters in the bathroom" and allegedly admitted to being "openly a pedophile."
In another threat made online, Willie took aim at Black people and threatened to "infect them with HIV" via a syringe.
"They're trash, they're Christian trash. They're transphobic, they're homophobic. They're no different than the f****** white supremacists," Willie said according to the indictment.
She also threatened to go to Uganda and "assassinate all of the parliament members."
Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Act, which was enacted in May, prescribes the death penalty for certain same-sex acts.
A proffer of evidence, presented by federal prosecutors to convince the judge to hold her in jail, said that Willie made the comments in August on the video platform "MeetMe," where she used the username "Mentally Unstable."
Willie has pleaded not guilty to all charges and remains in custody. A trial has been set for January 16, 2024 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois.
Who is Alexia Willie?
Not much is known about Willie who is from Nashville, Illinois and was formerly known as Jason Lee Willie, aside from a history of making threats against several different groups. According to the proffer of evidence, the FBI has received numerous reports regarding Willie's threats and erratic behavior online.
In 2018 the FBI received reports of a threat made by Willie on Facebook, in which she claimed to have killed a preacher that had molested her and hundreds of other children. The FBI previously spoke to Willie about a separate threat made on streaming platform Twitch, in which she threatened to bomb people who discriminate against transgender rights.
A person who lived with Willie said, according to the proffer of evidence, that she has "a lot of anger" and said he was trying to get "mental health assistance" for his house mate.
Newsweek has contacted the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois for more information via email.
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