“A local, self-identified ‘Incel’ was sentenced in US District Court today to 80 months in prison for attempting to conduct a mass shooting of women. Tres Genco, 24, of Hillsboro, Ohio, admitted he plotted to commit a hate crime, namely, a plan to shoot women at a university in Ohio. He was arrested by federal agents in July 2021 and has remained in custody since.”
“Genco identified as an Incel or ‘involuntary celibate.’ The Incel movement is a predominantly male online community that harbors anger towards women, fueled by their inability to convince women to engage in sexual activity with them. According to court documents, Genco maintained profiles on a popular Incel website from at least July 2019 through mid-March 2020 and posted more than 450 times on the site. More than 3,000 items on Genco’s two phones contained the word ‘Incel.’ In one online post, Genco detailed spraying ‘some foids [women] and couples’ with orange juice in a water gun. Genco compared his ‘extremely empowering action’ to similar conduct by known Incel Elliot Rodger. In May 2014, Rodger killed six people and injured 14 others, including shooting individuals outside a University of California, Santa Barbara sorority house. Prior to his mass attack, Rodger shot a group of college students with orange juice from a water gun.”
“Genco wrote a manifesto, too, stating he would ‘slaughter’ women ‘out of hatred, jealousy and revenge…’ and referring to death as the ‘great equalizer.’ The investigation revealed that the day he wrote his manifesto, Genco searched online for two sororities, including one at The Ohio State University. His Google searches included ‘sorority osu’ and ‘ohio state university sororities.’ As part of this investigation, law enforcement agents discovered a note of Genco’s that indicated he hoped to ‘aim big’ for a ‘huge!’ kill count of 3,000 people with a reference to the same date as Elliot Rodger’s attack…. On March 12, 2020, Highland County sheriff’s deputies responded to Genco’s residence. At the residence, in the trunk of Genco’s vehicle, police officers found, among other things, a firearm with a bump stock attached, several loaded magazines, body armor and boxes of ammunition,” says the Southern District of Ohio US Attorney’s office in a press release.