Las Vegas man accused of threatening to kill Rep. Titus

At 3:46 a.m. local time, a Las Vegas man picked up the phone, dialed the number of Democratic Rep. Dina Titus’ Washington office and began to ramble.

Using sexist expletives that March 16 morning, Louis Damato eventually got to a grim point in his alleged grievance against Titus: “So guess what? I bought a (expletive) gun, OK? I’m coming to D.C. to blow your (expletive) head off.”

Damato, who was identified and in police custody within a few hours of the threat, today appeared in a federal courtroom in Las Vegas to be arraigned on one charge each of threats against a U.S. official and interstate threats, according to a copy of the warrant.

In the voicemail, he made an apparent reference to an earlier comment from President Donald Trump, who joked that he could shoot someone on “Fifth Avenue” in New York and “wouldn’t lose any voters.”

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