{"id":31163,"date":"2026-05-29T08:55:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T08:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/man-arrested-for-threats-to-kill-erika-kirk-ahead-of-turning-point-usa-event-in-san-antonio-affidavit-says\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T08:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T08:55:13","slug":"man-arrested-for-threats-to-kill-erika-kirk-ahead-of-turning-point-usa-event-in-san-antonio-affidavit-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/man-arrested-for-threats-to-kill-erika-kirk-ahead-of-turning-point-usa-event-in-san-antonio-affidavit-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested for threats to kill Erika Kirk ahead of Turning Point USA event in San Antonio, affidavit says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>SAN ANTONIO<\/strong> \u2013 A San Antonio man was arrested early Thursday after he was accused of threatening to kill Erika Kirk ahead of her appearance next week at a Turning Point USA event downtown. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Jacob Wenske, 26, faces two felony charges of making a terroristic threat causing public fear, charging paperwork obtained by KSAT Investigates shows. <\/p>\n<div class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__StackBase-sc-1fnzlkn-7 llOgEd iQviKm customEmbed newsletter-signup\">\n<figure class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__StackBase-sc-1fnzlkn-7 bmjVmH eppOdR\" aria-labelledby=\":Rkfpeda:\"><figcaption id=\":Rkfpeda:\" class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 qBxJJ\">KSAT Investigates<\/figcaption><!--$--><!--\/$--><\/figure>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kiwhtN\">Hard-hitting journalism from the KSAT Investigates team delivered straight to your inbox.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kNAFkD cuqaEv article-text\">San Antonio police investigators said Wenske replied to an April social media post about the group\u2019s three-day women\u2019s leadership summit by writing, \u201cI know exactly where to bomb.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kNAFkD cuqaEv article-text\">In a separate post within the same thread, Wenske wrote, \u201cI can\u2019t wait to be the valet for her escort,\u201d a warrant for his arrest states.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kNAFkD cuqaEv article-text\">An email from an account registered to Wenske stated, \u201cDeath to Erika Kirk and every single speaker there!! America will live on without those scum on this earth. Every Christian nationalist shall perish in the bombing that will take place at every single Turning Point rally and event,\u201d according to the warrant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kNAFkD cuqaEv article-text\">Court records indicate his bond has been set at a combined $120,000. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kNAFkD cuqaEv article-text\">Kirk is a scheduled featured speaker at Turning Point USA\u2019s Women\u2019s Leadership Summit, which will take place June 5-7 at the San Antonio Marriott Rivercenter on the River Walk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kNAFkD cuqaEv article-text\">Erika Kirk became CEO of Turning Point USA, a conservative nonprofit, after the fatal shooting last September of her husband, Charlie Kirk, at a Turning Point event in Utah. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kNAFkD cuqaEv article-text\"><i>Read more reporting on the <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/ksat-investigates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>KSAT Investigates page<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANTONIO \u2013 A San Antonio man was arrested early Thursday after he was accused of threatening to kill Erika<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_animmysite_disable_animation":false,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/graham-media-group\/image\/upload\/f_auto\/q_auto\/c_thumb,w_700\/v1\/media\/video\/ksat\/13adaec0-d0e6-43e5-b982-a8edec457051\/image.jpg?_a=DATAg1fkZAA0","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usa-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}