An Ohio man who described himself as an “incel” and plotted to abolish girls people at a college was sentenced to over six years in penal advanced Thursday, federal prosecutors acknowledged.
Tres Genco, 24, wrote that he was wished to abolish girls people “out of hatred, jealousy and revenge,” the U.S. attorney’s approach to job in Cincinnati acknowledged, and he had previously sold a bulletproof vest and a cranium mask, a rifle and handgun magazines.
No one was injure and the idea was below no circumstances utilized. Genco was arrested in 2021 and pleaded responsible in October 2022 to at least one count of attempting to commit a despise crime.
A mediate on Thursday sentenced Genco to 6 years and eight months in penal advanced, even though he has been in custody for nearly three years after his arrest in July 2021.
Prosecutors argued in court docket documents that Genco was “fueled by misogynistic hatred” and that he “plotted the mass execute of girls people and meant to carry it out.”
He conducted cyber web searches a number of particular college, based on court docket documents, however the title of the college in the build apart has no longer been launched by officers if it’s known.
Genco of Hillsboro, a minute metropolis east of Cincinnati, described himself as an “incel,” a duration of time which implies “involuntary celibate.” It’s a misogynistic male neighborhood mostly on-line who despise girls people and think they are owed sex from girls people.
Genco “idolized Elliot Rodger,” prosecutors acknowledged, and he wrote on-line that he known with the 22-year-extinct California gunman who killed six other folks at random in the college metropolis of Isla Vista in 2014 after which shot himself.
He sold the mask and bulletproof vest and a 5.56 mm rifle in January and February of 2019, and in July of that year his “ hobby in Incel philosophy and violence escalated,” prosecutors wrote in a sentencing memorandum.
In August 2019, Genco wrote a file whereby he talked about incels, acknowledged he hated girls people and that “I am going to slaughter out of hatred, jealousy, and revenge.”
Genco’s attorney, Richard Monahan, didn’t straight reply to a seek files from of for commentary Friday night time.
Monahan wrote in a sentencing memorandum that there remain questions on how severe any thought was, and it “was no longer vastly terminate, as when put next with the customary ‘try offender,’ to the cost of the substantive offense.” Genco also wrote the manifesto whereas under the influence of alcohol at some stage in a outing to Greece, he acknowledged.
“Mr. Genco has clearly discovered from his mistakes, has matured vastly from when he committed this offense on the younger age of 19, and is no longer handiest demonstrating his rehabilitation, however is extending his clear pondering to these spherical him,” Monahan wrote.
Cheryl Mimura, FBI Cincinnati performing special agent responsible, acknowledged in an announcement Thursday that law enforcement stopped what would had been a lethal assault.
“Genco meant to enact a devastating mass execute of harmless girls people on this boom for no other reason than the undeniable truth that he hated them,” U.S. Authorized expert Kenneth L. Parker acknowledged in an announcement. “Every person deserves to dwell with out threats of violence or fearing acts of scare.”
Prosecutors requested the mediate to sentencer Genco to the maximum 12½ years allowed below a plea settlement, and Genco’s attorney requested for a sentence of time already served, documents tag.
Phil Helsel
Phil Helsel is a reporter for Business City News.