Man allegedly threatens to shoot delegate at rally after defense of Earle-Sears

For the second time in less than a week, a legislator from the state of Virginia for re -election was targeted by a death threat, in the midst of an increased political rhetoric and the murder of Charlie Kirk.

Del. Geary Higgins, R-Livettsville, confirmed on Monday to Fox News Digital that he had sent a death threat to which the suspect spats explanatives and said that he would draw on the legislator during his next rally.

“Let me be clear: threats of violence have no place in our political speech. I will not be intimidated, silenced or dissuaded to do the work that I was elected to do – fighting my voters in the counties of Fox News Digital of Western Loudoun and Fauquier, and to defend common sense”.

Higgins had sent an SMS to public subscribers to his response to her response to a racist sign held by an activist who protested against an appearance of Lieutenant-Governor WinSome Earle-Sears during a rally of the Arlington County School Board earlier this month.

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Virginia State del. Geary Higgins, center, discusses during an event in Virginia. (Del. Geary Higgins via Fox News Digital)

The woman was standing near the Earle-Sears team with a sign indicating: “Hey victory, if Trans cannot share your bathroom, then blacks cannot share my water fountain.”

Earle-Sears is an immigrant from Jamaica who is said to be the first woman’s black governor of Virginia and the second in the general classification, after the moderate democrat Douglas Wilder who was elected in 1989.

The suspect, Patrick Murphy, would have sent an SMS to Higgins after the campaign explosion, saying to him: “F-Off, Geary”.

“I’m going to shoot you [at] yer (sic) following public rally [t]Thumb you send memes with the photos, “Read the message.” I know where your children F – ING too, “said Murphy. Murphy faces crime charges and a hearing date in Leesburg next month.

Fox News Digital contacted the Commonwealth Commonwealth lawyer’s office for an additional comment.

In comments to Fox News Digital, Higgins thanked Loudoun’s police for having quickly stopped a suspect and expressed his hope that the public will continue to pray for his family after the threat – as well as all civil servants in the midst of what he called a period of growing threats and political violence.

“Unfortunately, this is the direct result of the unpleasant lies and the constant demonization of the radical left that we have seen in recent years,” added Higgins, criticizing his democratic opponent for what he said to be false advertisements and affirmations on his political file.

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Governor Glenn Youngkin, left., Del. Geary Higgins on the right. (Del. Geary Higgins via Fox News Digital)

Higgins said Warrenton John McAuliff’s inscovener was “on television at that time, calling me a crook and a betrayal and lying obviously on my file,” said Higgins, referring to television advertisements that used imagery and references to the Capitol riot as well as allegations of Higgins and Pandeuse of Virginia and Virginia.

“The last two sessions in Richmond, we have been called all the names under the sun. It should be shocking for people who continued to call your names as political opponents like the Nazis ” will ultimately lead to violence,” said Higgins.

Former member of the Council of Supervisors of the county of Loudoun, Higgins is also the last delegate of republican state remaining in an increasingly liberal suburban county, formerly liberal, known for infamous of the fight against transgender policies of its schools.

Fox News Digital contacted McAuliff’s campaign to comment. In one of the advertisements, McAuliff adds that he examined Higgins as part of his campaign plan to “protect the foothills” from development.

In a press release obtained by Fox News Digital, McAuliff said that political violence had “no place in our democracy” and that “differences must be settled by the debate and the elections, never by threats or intimidation”.

McAuliff said that he had personally contacted Higgins and that he was grateful that no one was physically injured and thanked the police for their efforts.

Murphy, from Purcellville, was arrested for the first time on September 2, according to a police report obtained by Fox News Digital.

The threat against Higgins follows a similar threat in which a Dinwiddie County, Virginia, would have sent a text to the campaign of State Del. Kim Taylor, threatening to kill her and saying that the Republicans “ruin the country”.

Taylor has been in sight since her election in 2021, when she shocked the Commonwealth by overthrowing a seat in Petersburg – one of the most democratic cities per capita in Virginia.

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The leaders of Virginia of the two parties condemned a racist sign intended for Lieutenant-Governor WinSome Earle-Sears, which was raised during a demonstration outside a meeting of the School Board where she spoke. (WinSome Earle-Sears campaign; Win McNamee / Getty Images)

Taylor faces the same democrat that she narrowly defeated by about 50 votes two years ago, Kimberly Pope Adams.

On Monday, she also clashed with the Democratic candidate of Governor Abigail Spanberger for a rhetoric charged with the left, citing recent violence which included the murder of Charlie Kirk.

Recent comments from Spanberger on “Let[ting] Your rabies fuel that you “have received criticism from the right, while the former deputy continues to maintain, she condemns all the violence and that she refers to the leave of the personal feelings of people to feed them to write letters and knock on the doors of the political campaigns.

The Bureau of the County Lawyer of the county of Loudoun quoted an active question and refused to comment more Fox News Digital.