White supremacist influencer Nick Fuentes claims he was targeted by an armed “would-be assassin” at his home Wednesday night who was wanted in connection with a triple homicide earlier in the evening.
Fuentes posted Ring doorbell videos on X Thursday that appeared to show a man with a gun and a crossbow knocking on his door. Wearing a motorcycle helmet to disguise his face, the man rests the crossbow on a wall before pulling out the pistol. When there is no reply, he can be heard shouting: “Yo, Nick!”
Fuentes, a well-known far-right Holocaust denier who was once a guest of Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, said he was livestreaming at the time of the visit and the man left the address in Berwyn, Illinois.
A gunman was shot later by officers after a late-night chase through a nearby residential area of Berwyn, during which he forced himself into a home and shot and killed two dogs, according to the Berwyn Police Department.
The chase began when police responded to a report of a male subject with a gun around eight minutes after the timestamp visible in Fuentes’ videos.
The suspect reportedly refused commands to surrender and fired at officers. They responded and shot him dead, according to a release from the department.
The shooter was suspected of a triple homicide that happened earlier on Wednesday at a home about 140 miles away in Mahomet, Illinois, about 10 miles northwest of Champaign, the release adds.
The dead man was identified by the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office as John R. Lyons, 24, of Westchester, Illinois.
Police have not officially confirmed the killer was the same man who targeted Fuentes.
But the streamer wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter: “According to police, the would-be assassin committed a triple homicide in southern Illinois early yesterday before he arrived at my doorstep with his pistol drawn, calling my name. I am grateful to God that I am still alive today.”
Posting his doorbell videos on X, Fuentes wrote: “The killer parked his car in front of my house and approached my door with his pistol drawn and what appears to be a crossbow. I was livestreaming at the time. He rings the doorbell, tries the doorknob, and yells “Yo Nick!”
In 2022, Fuentes was invited as a guest of rapper Kanye West, known as Ye, to dinner with Trump at his Palm Beach, Florida, estate. Trump confirmed the dinner on his Truth Social account but said he didn’t know Fuentes was accompanying West.
Posting about the gunman incident to his followers on Thursday, Fuentes said that his home address had been leaked online.
In another message, he wrote: “Last night an armed killer made an attempt on my life at my home, which was recently doxed on this platform. The gunman carried a pistol, crossbow, and incendiary devices. I believe he intended to kill me. He is now dead. I am okay!”
Fuentes claimed he would now need to relocate and was hiring 24-hour security to protect himself.
“Tragically, the gunman broke into a neighbors home to evade police & killed two of their dogs,” he wrote. “While heartbreaking, it could have been so unimaginably worse. God have mercy. Doxing is not a game. This nihilistic lynch mob behavior must end before anyone else is killed.”
Authorities identified the people killed in Mahomet as Sara Mason, 26, Caleb Mason, 23, and Janis Mason, 61, according to WBBM-TV. Officers were called to the scene at 9.40 p.m. on Wednesday after gunshots were heard from the house.
The motive for the triple killing was unclear but a WCIA report said Champaign County Court records showed that Lyons sued Caleb Mason in June.
Police responded to a call to Fuentes’ home last month after a woman with a camera turned up unannounced and claimed she was squirted with a liquid and pushed down the steps. Fuentes was charged with misdemeanor battery in relation to the incident.
The woman, Marla Rose, told the Chicago Sun-Times she traveled to his home to ask him about a provocative post about abortion policies he wrote after Trump’s election win last month which read: “Your body, my choice. Forever.”
