An Emmy-award nominated cameraman on the likes of Late Night with Conan O'Brien and The Ellen DeGeneres Show is set to appear in court over an alleged death threat he made to Republican congressman Matt Gaetz.
Eugene Huelsman was arrested last week for a call he made to Gaetz's office just three days after the Capitol riots in January, in which he allegedly threatened to shoot the congressman.
Gaetz, 39, was one of the foremost Republicans echoing former President Donald Trump's allegations of widespread voter fraud in the wake of the election.
'Tell [M.G.] to watch his back, tell him to watch his children,' Huelsman said according to the indictment.
'I'm coming for him. I'm gonna f---ing kill him. I'm gonna put a bullet in you and I'm gonna put a bullet in one of your f---ing kids too.'
The news comes just days after Gaetz claimed a hitman had traveled to Washington D.C. to kill him in a bizarre speech in the House of Representatives last week.
United States Representative Matt Gaetz (Republican of Florida) allegedly received a death threat from Eugene Huelsman on January 9, just days after the Capitol riots (Gaetz pictured September 2021)
Eugene Huelsman was arrested last week for a call he made to Gaetz's office just three days after the Capitol riots in January. Huelsman's role as a long-time camera operator for national television networks such as NBC, CNN and ABC was first revealed in a Fox News broadcast and subsequently shared via Gaetz' official Twitter account
Huelsman allegedly made the call to Gaetz threatening his life on January 9, just days after the Capitol riots (pictured) Gaetz, 39, was one of the foremost Republicans echoing former President Donald Trump's allegations of widespread voter fraud in the wake of the election
Huelsman's role as a long-time camera operator for national television networks such as NBC, CNN and ABC was first revealed in a Fox News broadcast and subsequently shared via Gaetz' official Twitter account.
Huelsman was indicted in May in Florida on one felony count of making a threat to injure the person of another, but his whereabouts at the time were not known to authorities.
A judge sealed the indictment until law enforcement managed to locate the cameraman in California and arrested him last week.
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