A northeast Ohio man is accused of leaving a racial slur-laced voicemail for an office led by a Black district attorney in New Mexico and saying that “there should be a noose in your future.”
Donald Fowler, who was arrested Wednesday on an arrest warrant issued last week, is charged with making a threatening communication. Fowler, who lives about 50 miles southeast of Cleveland, left the voicemail on Oct. 26 for the office of the Doña Ana County, N.M. District Attorney Gerald Byers, according to an affidavit drafted by an FBI agent.
The racist, profane, and threatening voicemail makes references ...
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