WASHINGTON — Fanatical TikTokkers armed with assault rifles plotted to attack the UFC Freedom 250 at the White House South Lawn Sunday night — after revving each other up over Jeffrey Epstein, billionaires, Israel and a hatred of President Trump, according to court papers and sources who spoke with The Post.
The multi-phase plot called for explosive drones to strike the South Lawn during the event, forcing attendees to flee outside the White House where a sniper team could pick them off, officials and prosecutors said.
The FBI foiled the zealots’ plans by infiltrating Signal chat
groups where they were planning “a coordinated attack” to kill President Trumo and other government officials, according to federal criminal complaints and affidavits unsealed Tuesday.
The “ultra-religious” guerillas espoused “anti-government” or anti-Israel views and had initially started plotting in a TikTok group called “Vanguard of the Old” in March 2026 before moving conversations to a private Signal group called “Hunters.”
The quintet was charged in at least four states — California, Ohio, Missouri, and Nebraska — with conspiring to murder members of the government and others after the parent of one alerted local police.
President Trump, Vice President JD Vance, tech billionaire Elon Musk and Israeli Prime Minister were all named as potential targets, in addition to members of Congress and a
West Virginia state lawmaker, according to court docs.
As many and as deadly as we can get,” said suspected ringleader, Abraham Hermosillo Alvara, in one of the messages
Another, Tycen Proper, was arrested on June 10 after his mother notified the Danville, Ohio, Police Department and Knox County Sheriff’s Office of concerns about her son’s recent “firearms purchases and communicating with certain individuals online,” according to an affidavit filed in the Southern District of Ohio.
Those persons “claimed to be ex-military and Christian-based,” the mother later said in a phone interview with an FBI task force officer.
Their “grievances” included “government corruption, the handling of the [Jeffrey] Epstein files, data centers taking up all the water in communities, and other government actions,” as well as “billionaires” and “capitalist elites.”
Proper’s mother had overheard him speaking on the phone and mentioning that he was undergoing physical training for “recon” and “hit and run missions,” which she understood to mean “conducting shootings.”
Her son had been leaning “heavily” into his Christian beliefs, but she expressed that those in the chat groups had been “using religion to manipulate and influence her son,” the affidavit stated.
In one of the private chat groups, the suspects debated targeting Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Sen. Jim Justice (R-W.Va.), Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), as well as West Virginia GOP Reps. Carol Miller, Riley Moore and state delegate Tristan Leavitt.
As many and as deadly as we can get,” said suspected ringleader, Abraham Hermosillo Alvara, in one of the messages
Another, Tycen Proper, was arrested on June 10 after his mother notified the Danville, Ohio, Police Department and Knox County Sheriff’s Office of concerns about her son’s recent “firearms purchases and communicating with certain individuals online,” according to an affidavit filed in the Southern District of Ohio.
Those persons “claimed to be ex-military and Christian-based,” the mother later said in a phone interview with an FBI task force officer.
Their “grievances” included “government corruption, the handling of the [Jeffrey] Epstein files, data centers taking up all the water in communities, and other government actions,” as well as “billionaires” and “capitalist elites.”
Proper’s mother had overheard him speaking on the phone and mentioning that he was undergoing physical training for “recon” and “hit and run missions,” which she understood to mean “conducting shootings.”
Her son had been leaning “heavily” into his Christian beliefs, but she expressed that those in the chat groups had been “using religion to manipulate and influence her son,” the affidavit stated.
In one of the private chat groups, the suspects debated targeting Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Sen. Jim Justice (R-W.Va.), Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), as well as West Virginia GOP Reps. Carol Miller, Riley Moore and state delegate Tristan Leavitt.
As many and as deadly as we can get,” said suspected ringleader, Abraham Hermosillo Alvara, in one of the messages
Another, Tycen Proper, was arrested on June 10 after his mother notified the Danville, Ohio, Police Department and Knox County Sheriff’s Office of concerns about her son’s recent “firearms purchases and communicating with certain individuals online,” according to an affidavit filed in the Southern District of Ohio.
Those persons “claimed to be ex-military and Christian-based,” the mother later said in a phone interview with an FBI task force officer.
When executing a search warrant on the home where Proper lived with his parents, FBI agents and local law enforcement found a “large quantity of boxes of spent ammunition,” “spent cartridge casings,” and “other tactical clothing.
Family members also drew the authorities’ attention to comments Proper had made online expressing sympathy for Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, as well as other antisemitic statements
Proper recently spent $3,000 of his high school “graduation money” on “camping gear, food, ballistic plates, a new shotgun, a rifle, ‘lots’ of ammunition, extra magazines, and plate carriers,” his father also told authorities.
Proper confessed to investigators in a June 11 interview that he had been planning the “coordinated” attack with others to “jumpstart” a revolution in the US, because they believed the country “was headed in the wrong direction” and “needed to be torn down so that it could be rebuilt.”