A San Fernando Valley man was sentenced Monday to 3 years and 7 months in federal jail after repeatedly threatening a Jewish lady and texting her violent, antisemitic and anti-Asian messages.
Andre Lackner of Northridge pleaded responsible to at least one depend of stalking in January and admitted to sending textual content messages akin to “I need to see each single Jew exterminated from this earth” and “I’ll make sure that I kill a Jew,” based on court docket paperwork.
He confronted a most of 5 years in jail.
Lackner, 35, despatched the messages between June 2021 and October 2022 to a sufferer recognized in court docket paperwork as M.S., who met Lackner in 2006 at Santa Monica Faculty. Lackner and M.S. briefly dated and ended the connection on pleasant phrases, court docket paperwork stated.
M.S. inspired Lackner to hunt assist when he began sending her messages about hurting himself and others. She reported Lackner to the FBI after receiving overtly threatening and antisemitic messages.
The messages brought about her “to worry for her security, that of her household, and that of the bigger neighborhood,” a sentencing memorandum stated.
“Possibly Hitler was on to one thing,” one message stated. “You must be walked again to the gasoline chamber the place you belong.”
Lackner additionally made violent feedback towards Asians, writing that “the Asians are even worse” and that he wished to “begin extra Asian hate.”
Courtroom paperwork say Lackner had a historical past of posting threats on-line about mass shootings at faculties, on cruise ships and on the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Pageant.
In 2017, he known as his previous Venice Excessive College instructor and threatened to kill her and her household, paperwork stated. 4 days later, he appeared at a park the place the instructor was strolling her canine. He was arrested and convicted of constructing prison threats with the intent to terrorize.
M.S. stopped replying to Lackner’s messages quickly after they grew to become violent, and finally blocked him, sentencing paperwork stated. She informed regulation enforcement that Lackner was conscious her household was Jewish and wrote that “he might keep in mind the place my household now lives,” and “he would possibly attempt to go there and harm Jews.”
Lackner has been in federal custody since December 2022.
