
America First influencer Nicholas J. Fuentes claims he was the victim of an alleged “assassination attempt” at his home in Berwyn, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago.
Last night an armed killer made an attempt on my life at my home, which was recently doxed on this platform.
— Nicholas J. Fuentes (@NickJFuentes) December 19, 2024
The gunman carried a pistol, crossbow, and incendiary devices. I believe he intended to kill me.
He is now dead. I am okay!
- In a series of X/Twitter posts, Fuentes claims the so-far unidentified gunman specifically called out Fuentes’s name while brandishing “a pistol, crossbow, and incendiary devices” at his doorstep Wednesday night.
- The intruder would also break into a neighbor’s home, killing two dogs, before being shot dead by local law enforcement in pursuit, media reports claim.
- While the individual has yet to be identified by authorities, police assert the now-deceased suspect was a person of interest in a gruesome triple homicide in Mahomet, Illinois, earlier that day. Victims in that shooting were three family members: Sara E. Mason, age 26, Janis L. Mason, age 61, and Caleb M. Mason, age 23.

Zooming in: Fuentes says he is lucky to be alive after the incident, taking an opportunity to shine a light on the act of malicious doxing and hinting he will be relocating from the Windy City in the unspecified future.
- “While heartbreaking, it could have been so unimaginably worse. God have mercy. Doxing is not a game. This nihilistic lynch mob behavior must end before anyone else is killed,” he said in a post to X/Twitter.
- “I will now have to uproot my life and relocate. While I can handle whatever comes to my front door, it is irresponsible to expect my neighbors with young families to share that burden. In the meantime I will have to contract 24 hour security to protect myself and my property,” he continued.”
- To corroborate the claims, Fuentes then uploaded security camera footage from his home, which purports to show the heavily armed suspect wearing a helmet, glasses, windbreaker, and backpack approach his front door.
The killer parked his car in front of my house and approached my door with his pistol drawn and what appears to be a crossbow. I was livestreaming at the time.
— Nicholas J. Fuentes (@NickJFuentes) December 19, 2024
He rings the door bell, tries the doorknob and yells “yo Nick!” pic.twitter.com/5y1LF3Dv56
Zooming out: Fuentes’s claims of an armed invader being killed by police on his residential block have so far been verified by law enforcement and media sources as accurate.
- The right-wing provocateur has had issues with people approaching his residential address in the past. In November, Fuentes was slapped with a single battery count for allegedly pepper-spraying 57-year-old Maria Rose—who is Jewish—after reports state she came to confront him over posts made to social media.
- Fuentes residential address had been maliciously doxxed by activists years prior. The latest “assassination attempt” has now kickstarted a debate on the real-life ramifications of “doxxing” and its proliferation on social media platforms like X/Twitter.
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