Tyler Maxon Avalos

Introduction

Tyler Maxon Avalos, a 30-year-old Minnesota man, has been convicted by a federal jury of interstate transmission of a threat to injure the person of another — the charge arising from a social media post that put a sniper-scope crosshair on a photograph of then-United States Attorney General Pam Bondi’s forehead and advertised a $45,000 payment for her death. The guilty verdict was returned on November 4, 2026, following a federal jury trial before U.S. District Judge Susan Richard Nelson, according to the announcement by U.S. Attorney Daniel N. Rosen of the District of Minnesota. The case began with a tip: a Michigan social media user saw the post in October 2025 and reported it to the FBI, which traced it to Avalos and, at trial, presented his postings, his phone, and his history to the jury that convicted him.

Background Information

The threat that reached the jury was specific enough to be actionable. On October 9, 2025, a Michigan user of an internet-based social media platform observed a post the user believed threatened then-Attorney General Bondi and reported it to the FBI, stating that the post was “[i]mposing a hit on Pam bondi for $45,000” and identifying the poster’s username as @liminalvoidslip. The threatening post featured a photograph of Bondi with a sniper-scope-style red-dot crosshair imposed on her forehead, alongside words stating that she was “wanted” “dead or alive,” “preferably dead.” Below the post, its author added a comment reading, “when they don’t serve us then what?” — framing the bounty as redress for a government that had, in the poster’s view, failed its subjects. The FBI traced the post to Avalos, and the investigation that followed assembled the record the jury ultimately convicted on.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Convicted by a jury; sentencing pending. A federal jury found Avalos guilty of transmitting a threat to injure after trial evidence showed his $45,000 sniper-scope bounty post targeting the Attorney General.

The trial evidence went well beyond the single post. Avalos’s social media profile page contained various symbols associated with anarchists, including a link to an “Anarchist FAQ,” and his accounts, the government showed, used several platforms to engage with, promote, or post content that celebrated the killing of Charlie Kirk. His postings made repeated references to Luigi Mangione, the alleged assassin of the United Healthcare CEO — including one post featuring an image of a sticker reading “be the Luigi you want to see in the world,” followed by an anarchist symbol. Other comments captured in the evidence included, “I bet if politicians got kirked they’d start acting right,” “do you expect to remove fascists from power without bloodshed,” “feds need it next,” and “the whole administrations needs to be put on a wall.”

The most forward-looking evidence came from Avalos’s own phone. A review of the device, seized during a search of his residence, uncovered a video narrated by Avalos in which he stated that he believed he knew where a technology company CEO lived with his wife and child. In the video, Avalos said, “Since we got the brave souls that are targeting CEOs, I think that he should be next on the list, because obvious reason. Don’t disappoint please…” — language the jury heard alongside the Bondi bounty post and his prior record: a felony stalking conviction in 2022 in Dakota County, Minnesota, a felony domestic battery conviction in 2016 in Polk County, Florida, and several misdemeanor domestic-assault convictions. The jury returned its guilty verdict on the interstate-threat count on November 4, 2026.

Public Reaction and Consequences

The conviction was announced by U.S. Attorney Daniel N. Rosen in unusually expansive terms, framing the verdict inside a year of political-violence prosecutions in his district. “The jury’s guilty verdict today is the result of the continuing campaign by my office and federal law enforcement to target those that threaten violence in the political arena,” Rosen said, adding that as American society becomes more politically polarized, those who threaten or commit political violence are “becoming more numerous, more brazen, and more dangerous.” He catalogued the office’s year: convictions of individuals who threatened a total of eight federal judges, one U.S. Supreme Court justice, four members of the House, and two senators; the conviction of an individual who assaulted a Minnesota House member; charges against three individuals who assaulted a journalist singled out for assumed political views; charges against fifteen individuals who plotted violence to impede law enforcement; a charged plot for a religion-motivated mass-casualty attack at the Mall of America; and consecutive life terms for the assassin of the former Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives and her husband. “Politically motivated threats and violence are a plague on our society,” Rosen said, pledging that federal law enforcement remains “on high alert, at all times.”

Current Status

Avalos stands convicted by a jury and awaits sentencing by Judge Susan Richard Nelson; the announcement did not set a sentencing date. The case was the result of an FBI investigation with assistance from other law enforcement partners, and the prosecution is being handled by First Assistant United States Attorney Joseph S. Teirab and Assistant United States Attorneys David Green and Benjamin Bejar. Until sentencing, the conviction is final as a verdict but unexecuted as punishment — the interstate-threat count now carries whatever range the sentencing guidelines and the court produce, on top of a criminal history that already includes two felony convictions.

Impact on Their Career/Life

The jury verdict converts Avalos’s posting history from protected — however ugly — speech into a convicted felony: the @liminalvoidslip bounty post with the crosshair on Bondi’s forehead, the Mangione glorification, the “kirked” commentary, and the video locating a CEO’s family are now trial exhibits behind a unanimous finding that he transmitted a threat to injure. At 30, with a prior felony stalking conviction and a prior felony domestic battery conviction already on his record, the new conviction stacks onto a history that sentencing courts weigh cumulatively, and the supervised scrutiny that follows federal supervision will treat the posting behavior as demonstrated risk rather than abstract opinion. The case’s public record — built from his own accounts and his own phone — is now the permanent, searchable documentation of what his online persona produced: a jury conviction for putting a price on a public official’s life.

Sources

• U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Minnesota, “Federal Jury Finds Minnesota Man Guilty of Transmitting Threat to Injure Former United States Attorney General,” November 4, 2026. source