
Zachary Charles Newell, a 25-year-old from Newport, North Carolina, was arrested on September 1, 2025, after posting a racially charged comment on YouTube threatening to kill black preschool children.
According to a United States Department of Justice press release, The comment, made under the username “CommentatorsHateMe,” read: “I’m gonna shoot up a black pre-school. 20 black babies will be shot and then skinned like the animals they are.”