Texas Man Federally Charged With Threatening Former Baltimore Health Commissioner Dr. Leana Wen

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A Texas antheral has been federally charged with threatening Dr. Leana Wen, a erstwhile Baltimore City Health Commissioner and existent aesculapian expert with CNN, implicit her enactment of the COVID-19 vaccine, according to an indictment unsealed Tuesday.

Scott Eli Harris allegedly sent Wen a connection successful July and threatened she would beryllium shot, claiming helium was an Army seasoned and sniper.

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“I can’t hold for the shooting to start,” helium allegedly wrote, aboriginal asking, “where’s your f—ing office?”

Harris besides allegedly told Wen helium was ne'er going to instrumentality “your wonderment drug,” adding “My 12 gauge promises I won’t.”

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The connection besides allegedly references Wen’s inheritance arsenic a Chinese migrant and uses different offensive, threatening language.

Harris is charged with 1 number of threats transmitted by interstate communication.

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The indictment was primitively filed connected Sept. 29 and unsealed Tuesday aft Harris was arrested. He is scheduled to look marque an archetypal quality successful Texas.

CBS Baltimore Staff