A 19-year-old man was arrested last week after authorities say they discovered he had made social media threats hours before
at least 1,000 students and community members attended the Charlie Kirk vigil at the University of Texas at San Antonio campus.
Kirk, the CEO and co-founder of conservative youth organization Turning Point USA, was killed Sept. 10 while speaking at Utah Valley University.
On Thursday, Xaelyn Dunbar was arrested and charged with terroristic threat by intentionally and knowingly threatening to commit violence, placing persons in fear of imminent serious bodily injury, court records show.
He is currently housed at the Bexar County jail with a bail set at $40,000, records show.
On Sept. 15, the day of Kirk's vigil, a captain with UTSA’s Police Department informed the San Antonio Police Department of a Facebook message thread involving Dunbar, according to an arrest affidavit.
The message thread was flagged by the Southwest Texas Fusion Center, an interagency intelligence-gathering hub managed by SAPD.
Dunbar’s messages were found on the feed for the San Antonio Young Republicans’ Facebook account regarding Kirk’s vigil that was planned for later that evening, the affidavit states.
According to the affidavit, Dunbar allegedly commented, “This is a disgrace and I can tell you right now ima make sure this won’t be a good nor comforting vigil yall watch and see.”
He continued by saying, “Ima make this (a) movie…me and my truck.”
When questioned by another user about what he meant, Dunbar replied, “You’ll see (tomorrow) I… wouldn’t advise tryna stop a Ford 250 Diesel truck. (I will) show yall how much Charlie really means.”
Shortly after 7 p.m., SAPD and Universal City Police Department officers went to Dunbar’s residence at the Sagebrush Apartments on the Northeast Side, according to the affidavit.
Officers began speaking with Dunbar, who immediately stated that he knew why officers came to his apartment.
Dunbar confessed to posting the comments on Facebook, and he agreed that his comments could be interpreted as “threatening in nature,” according to the affidavit, but he told officers he saw it as a joke.
“(Dunbar) stated he was from the younger generation, being dumb and he saw this as clowning around,” the affidavit states.
The officers quickly reminded Dunbar that he was no longer a kid.
In response, he stated that even if he were 19 years old, that doesn’t mean he won’t still act like a kid.
Officers asked Dunbar if posting his comments was worth being criminally charged, he responded by saying, “if that’s what it takes, I did what I did and I can take the consequences,” the affidavit states.
Sep 24, 2025
