True Crime : Self-described incel accused of plot to "slaughter" women

An Ohio man whom federal prosecutors accused of planning to "slaughter" women and kill thousands of people in a mass shooting pleaded guilty to an attempted hate crime, authorities said Tuesday.

Tres Genco, 22, admitted targeting women at a university in Ohio in 2020, the U.S. attorney's office for Southern Ohio said in a news release.

He faces a possible sentence of up to life in prison.

According to the prosecutor's office, Genco identified as an "involuntary celibate," or incel, one of a group of men who harbor hostility toward women for denying them "sexual or romantic attention to which they believe they are entitled."

The US Attorney’s Office said in a news release announcing the plea that the 22-year-old self-identified with the online incel subculture, while noting that the group is known to “advocate violence in support of their belief that women unjustly deny them sexual or romantic attention”.

On Aug. 3, 2019, Genco drafted a document describing himself as a "socially exiled Incel" and saying he planned to "take away the power of life that they withhold from me," according to the document.

"I will slaughter out of hatred, jealousy and revenge," he wrote, the indictment says.

In a so-called manifesto penned by the self-described incel, among other writings uncovered by authorities that dated back years, he wrote how the training he planned to carry out with the US Army would help prepare him to carry out his plot to kill women. He called it a "reality" that he would "cherish" and "fantasize at the opportunity of having."

The 22-year-old also went on to describe death as "the great equalizer."