A 21-year-old Miami man who used social media messaging to threaten to “kill everyone” attending a high school junior prom in New Jersey has pleaded guilty to transmitting threats through interstate communications, a felony offence.
During his change of plea hearing, Onil Compres Rodriguez admitted that on April 30, 2024, he sent a series of direct messages to social media accounts, including accounts belonging to schools in New Jersey.
He wrote: “I will kill everyone,” “they should never have hurt me,” “See you on May 2 at the junior prom . . . I will be charged for the damage they did to me,” “They don’t know who they messed with,” and “Wear your bulletproof vests there will be a lot of blood hahaha.”
Compres Rodriguez sent two photographs with the messages: one of an invitation to a New Jersey high school prom on May 2, 2024, the other of three firearms and ammunition.
The threats were reported to law enforcement, whose investigation led them to Compres Rodriguez in Miami.
On May 2, 2024 (the date of the New Jersey prom), they learned that Compres Rodriguez had just booked a flight at Miami International Airport headed for Newark, New Jersey.
When the flight landed in Newark, law enforcement was there, waiting for him. They arrested Compres Rodriguez, who never made it to prom.
Senior U.S. District Judge Federico Moreno will sentence Compres Rodriguez in Miami on June 25. He faces up to five years in federal prison.
