Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced on Thursday that a Texas man was charged with making death threats against New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.

Jeremy Fistel is a 44-year-old man who was indicted by a grand jury on September 4. He was arrested in Texas on September 11 and extradited to Queens six days later. Katz alleged:

[T]he defendant threatened an elected official by leaving a series of increasingly alarming anti-Muslim voicemail and written messages to the office of Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani. The defendant told the assemblyman to go back to Uganda before someone shoots him in the head, to keep an eye on his house and family, to watch his back every second until he leaves America, and that he and his relatives deserve to die.

The indictment charges

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