The white supremacist who intended to bomb a hospital during the coronavirus pandemic also discussed using Mylar balloons to attack electricity infrastructure and shooting up schools in minority neighborhoods, according to a new Joint Intelligence Bulletin on the plot disrupted March 24.
Timothy Wilson, 36, of Missouri was killed in a shootout with the FBI that day when he was picking up what he thought was an improvised explosive device from an undercover agent.
Wilson came to the attention of the FBI in September 2019 in connection with the case of Jarrett Smith, a Fort Riley, Kansas, soldier arrested then after allegedly plotting acts of violence targeting Democratic lawmakers, a news network and cellular phone infrastructure.
On March 22, the bulletin says, Wilson met with an FBI undercover employee and discussed a car-bomb attack against a Missouri medical center. The bomb was intended to be on a timer with detonation at 10 p.m. on March 24.
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