White supremacist arrested for allegedly plotting to shoot up Texas Walmart

Police in Kerrville, Texas have arrested an apparent white supremacist who they say was planning a mass shooting at a local Walmart.

Coleman Thomas Blevins, 28, was plotting the attack from his home filled with weapons and neo-Nazi paraphernalia, the Kerr County Sheriff’s Office says – but they put him in jail before he could carry it out.

“Our investigators did outstanding work in this case, and possibly saved many lives,” Sheriff Larry Leitha said in a statement. “The plot interrupted in this case is unthinkable.”

Over the course of a weeklong operation, the Kerr County Sheriff’s Office determined that Mr Blevins had been radicalized by “extremist ideologies” and was preparing to carry out a “mass casualty event”.

On 27 May, the KCSO Special Operations Division intercepted a message from Mr Blevins that “made a specific threat that included Wal-Mart”. Police immediately arrested him.