Crime & Safety
Email About 'Executing' Planned Parenthood Staff Prompts Police Response
Police are investigating an email message sent to a priest at a local Catholic church. The writer asks about 'executing' staff at Planned Parenthood.
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Sarasota Police are investigating a threatening email that a man, identified only as "Henry," sent to a local Planned Parenthood, Sarasota Police told the Sarasota Herald-Tribune.
"Henry" sent an email to a Christ the King Catholic Church priest asking whether it was in God's plan for "Henry" to kill Planned Parenthood staff, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune reports.
The priest contacted the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office.
According to the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, the email states:
“God’s Plan, do you take issue with me executing everyone working inside planned parenthood sarasota, and if police, get involved, just unloose some ‘terrorists’ . . . how do you wanna play it?”
Police sent officers to Planned Parenthood to inform staff and have a visible presence there.
Police also contacted the man named "Henry" and "determined he should be evaluated under the Baker Act," according to the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. An acquaintance of the man was taking him to a health facility for evaluation.
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