An Ohio man and self-described “incel” who was convicted of plotting a sorority mass shooting now lives two blocks from one of his potential targets — the Ohio State University campus.Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content.And the Justice Department wants Tres Genco evicted from his home in Columbus.Tres Genco.Instagram“The government has serious safety concerns,” the Justice Department said in a motion filed May 26 with U.S.District Judge Susan Dlott of the Southern District of Ohio.So does Ohio State.“We support the DOJ motion,” an OSU spokesperson said Wednesday.
“Student safety is our top priority.”In its motion, the Justice Department requested that additional conditions be added to Genco’s supervised release.They would include requiring Genco to reside “more than 2 miles from any Ohio university or college and that his residence location be pre-approved by the probation office.”The Justice Department also asks that Genco be banned “from entering upon the grounds of any Ohio university or college without prior approval from the probation office.” And it wants computer monitoring software added to his electronic devices.Genco, who is from Hillsboro, Ohio, was arrested in 2021 and pleaded guilty the next year to one count of attempting to commit a hate crime.
He was sentenced to six years in prison, followed by five years of supervised probation.Specifically, Genco wrote in a document titled “A Hideous Symphony, a manifesto written by Tres Genco, the socially exiled Incel,” that he had been plotting to “slaughter” women “out of hatred, jealousy and revenge” at a university in Ohio.One of his potential targets was a sorority at OSU, the Justice Department said.Genco went so far as to buy a bulletproof vest and a skull mask, a rifle and handgun magazines.But he was arrested in July 2021 before he could carry out the plot after his mother reported that he had t...