Houston Man Wanted, Accused Of Threats To Sen. Ted Cruz, Republicans

HOUSTON, TX — A warrant has been issued for a Houston-area man who is being accused of threatening to kill Sen. Ted Cruz and other Republicans in a phone message, according to court records.

Isaac Ambe Nformangum, a 22-year-old from Richmond, did not appear for a July 8 court appearance after being released from his initial arrest on a $2,500 personal recognizance bond, court records show.

Nformangum is charged with making a terroristic threat, a third-degree felony.

Nformangum is accused of leaving a phone message for Cruz, threatening to kill him and his Republican colleagues over the official Texas GOP 2022 platform approved and released last month, according to a criminal complaint obtained by Patch.

Nformangum, who identified himself as Afro-American in the message, took issue with Republicans' intent in the platform to "have the Voting Rights Act (of 1965) repealed and not reauthorized." He accused Cruz and other Republicans of trying to "strip us of our rights like you did our grandparents so many years ago."

Nformangum said Cruz and every one of his Republican colleagues "is to be shot dead. Found and killed," according to the complaint.

The Harris County Sheriff's Office began investigating the threats on June 27 and traced the phone number from the message on Cruz's phone to a woman with the same last name as Nformangum. The woman did not provide information when officers questioned her at her Richmond home, according to court documents.

Officers found Nformangum's Instagram account and compared the voice in the message to the voice from a video posted to Nformangum's YouTube account and believed them to be the same voice, according to the complaint.

The case has been referred to the Harris County District Attorney's Office.