A former middle school music teacher is set to be sentenced Tuesday for making death threats against Sen. Wendy Rogers in 2022.
Donald Glenn Brown, who resigned from the Tucson Unified School District after being indicted, pleaded guilty to a previous attempted terror threat. It is the lowest level Class 4 felony. Navajo County Superior Court Judge Joseph Clark will sentence Brown at a hearing scheduled for 10:30 a.m. in Holbrook.
Brown was charged with sending an email on July 4 to Shaw Low’s Trumped Store with the subject line “Wendy Rogers dies (abusively)” from a fake account, according to a Department of Public Security report. was done. Rogers was on show low for the Fourth of July parade.
The abusive email, believed to be from “Jessica James,” states “Jim and Jessica” with “a pair of AR-15s” parked at a fast food restaurant next to the Trumped Store. was
The email said, “I’m going to go into your… joking store and start filming.” Brown threatened to shoot Rogers in the head (who called Rogers a “traitor”) before shooting into the store.
In a court statement included in her attendance report, Brown said she had read several social media messages, presumably from Mr. Rogers, and described them as “extremely offensive” and “ugly and violent.” responded by issuing blasphemous and threatening messages.” It was an impulsive, stupid, angry and careless mistake I made. ”
He wrote that he was “absolutely and terribly ashamed” of his conduct and had no intention of acting on it. Authorities said they believed he sent the email from his mother’s home near Shaw Low. No weapons were found either there or at his apartment in Tucson, according to attendance reports.
The attendance report states that no sentencing agreement has been reached for his plea, but mentions probation. Brown has no previous history. After resigning from his teaching job, Brown moved to the White Mountains to live with his mother and his brother, reports said.
A lawyer for Rogers did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Rodgers (R, Flagstaff) referred to the threat at a recent hearing after failing to convince a judge to extend a restraining order against a reporter who knocked on his door in the Valley.
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