Tres Genco pleaded guilty to plotting to "slaughter" 3,000 sorority girls. (Butler County) A self-described "incel," or "involuntary celibate," from Ohio on Tuesday pleaded guilty to plotting a mass shooting of about 3,000 women, including sorority girls, according to the Department of Justice.Tres Genco, 22, of Hillsboro admitted to planning a hate crime to shoot women at an Ohio university in 2021.Genco wrote a manifesto in which he stated that he would "slaughter" women "out of hatred, jealousy and revenge," referring to death as the "great equalizer." In another note obtained by law enforcement, Genco said he wanted to "aim big" for a 3,000-person kill count, according to the DOJ.The day he wrote his manifesto, Genco searched online for sororities and for information on the Ohio university where he planned to conduct the attack.
In 2019, he had purchased gloves; a bulletproof vest; a hoodie with the word, "Revenge"; a bowie knife; a skull face mask; two Glock 17 magazines; a 9mm Glock 17 clip; and a holster clip for a Glock, the Justice Department said.OHIO ‘INCEL’ ACCUSED OF PLOTTING TO ‘SLAUGHTER’ WOMEN AT OHIO UNIVERSITYFederal agents arrested the 22-year-old in July 2021, and he has remained in custody in Butler County since then. "Genco formulated a plot to kill women and intended to carry it out.
Our federal and local law enforcement partners stopped that from happening," U.S. Attorney Kenneth L. Parker for the Southern District of Ohio said in a Tuesday statement.