Marine charged with threatening mass shooting of white people



A Mercer County man who was in the U.S. Marine Corps until last week has been charged with making threatening statements about killing white people in a shooting rampage, federal authorities announced Monday.

Joshua Cobb, 23, of Hamilton, mentioned two possible attack locations, a Jersey Strong gym and an Aldi grocery store in Robbinsville, and said he had access to guns and the will to kill a lot of people, authorities allege.

“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,” Cobb posted on social media in December 2022, according to authorities.

He also wrote, “Tbh [to be honest] I hope I do progress into a serial killer.”

In another post, the user said he had killed his cat with a crossbow.

“Very bloody scene and I loved it,” he wrote.

The user described a family history of schizophrenia but said he refused to get evaluated lest he lose his firearms license.

“I promise I will make everyone feel my f---ing pain. My deep, sincere, raw, & sharp pain,” he wrote.

Federal authorities did not say how they were alerted to Cobb, but last month they interviewed him on the Marine base in California and seized his phone.
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