A New Hampshire man who was charged with levying death threats toward presidential hopefuls last year was found dead during jury deliberations on his case, court filings revealed.
Tyler Anderson, 30, was facing three counts for sending a threat using interstate commerce and faced up to 15 years in prison. It is not immediately clear how he died.
“The government has learned that the defendant is deceased. There is no case or controversy,” federal prosecutors wrote in a motion to dismiss Thursday.
On Wednesday, the FBI conducted a search for Anderson and had fears that he had threatened to inflict self-harm, WMUR 9 reported. He was reportedly found dead in a parking garage close to a hospital in Concord.
The Post contacted his lawyer for comment.
Anderson’s attorney had mounted a defense predicated on free speech.
He was arrested in December and formally charged several weeks later.
Authorities accused him of texting death threats to Vivek Ramaswamy‘s presidential campaign as well as ominous warnings to at least two other presidential hopefuls.
“Great, another opportunity for me to blow [Ramaswamy’s] brains out!” Anderson allegedly replied in one text to the campaign
“I’m going to kill everyone who attends and then f–k their corpses,” he allegedly wrote in another.
Ramaswamy’s campaign had confirmed that he was one of the targets.
Another message he sent on Nov. 22, 2023, featured a threat to “impale” and “disembowel” one candidate. Later on Dec. 6, 2023, he wrote, “Now I know where to go so I can blow that bastard’s head off,” and added, “Hope you have the stamina for a mass shooting!”
Prosecutors did not identify the other two candidates that had allegedly been targetted by Anderson.
However, one of those messages featured a slogan associated with former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and described someone “who isn’t afraid to tell it like it is.” Christie’s events were dubbed “Tell it Like It Is Town Halls.”
Anderson’s attorney claimed that his client had no intention of following through on those cryptic threats.
The defendant from Dover had been getting treatment for mental health and was under instructions to remain current on his prescribed medications, per court records.
His trial began with jury selection last week. Jurors then began deliberating on Tuesday, before proceedings got cut short.
