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Florida man pleads guilty to sending Ilhan Omar death threat

By Christopher Hutton
Published April 20, 2022 1:48pm ET
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Florida man pleads guilty to sending Ilhan Omar death threat
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., listens as she joins Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., to call for legislation to cancel all student debt, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, June 24, 2019. | (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

A Florida man pleaded guilty to threatening Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar.

David Hannon, a 67-year-old man from Sarasota, Florida, admitted to sending an email to Omar and threatening to shoot her. He now faces one count of threatening a federal official, according to the Justice Department.

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