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Texas Teen Charged Over Online Threats Toward UTSA Vigil for Charlie Kirk

A regional fusion center flagged the Facebook thread, prompting a welfare check that led to an arrest on a terroristic‑threat count.

Overview

  • Xaelyn Dunbar, 19, was arrested and charged with making a terroristic threat after comments about a planned UTSA vigil for Charlie Kirk appeared on a San Antonio Young Republicans Facebook post.
  • An arrest affidavit quotes Dunbar as writing that he would make the vigil “a movie” with “me and my truck” and warning others not to try to stop a Ford F‑250 diesel.
  • The Southwest Texas Fusion Center flagged the posts, UTSA police alerted San Antonio police, and officers from SAPD and Universal City conducted a welfare check at Dunbar’s Sagebrush Apartments residence.
  • Dunbar admitted posting the comments, acknowledged they could be seen as threatening, and told officers he was “being dumb” and “clowning around,” according to the affidavit.
  • He is held in the Bexar County jail on a $40,000 bond, and the Sept. 15 vigil proceeded without incident with roughly 1,000 attendees.