WISE COUNTY, Va. (WJHL) — Wise County Sheriff Grant Kilgore has joined some Virginia lawmakers and law enforcement members in calling for Jay Jones' withdrawal from the Virginia Attorney General race following the discovery of alleged texts he sent to a peer, advocating for the murder of a lawmaker in the Commonwealth.

On Friday, Oct. 3, text messages from 2022 were shared that showed Jones reportedly describing a hypothetical situation in which the former Virginia GOP Speaker, Todd Gilbert, would be shot. The texts have now been made available by the Republican Attorneys General Association, showing that Jones stated in one message, “Three people, two bullets. Gilbert, hitler, and pol pot. Gilbert gets two bullets to the head.”

According to a post by the sheriff's office on Wednesday, K

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