A 26-year-old man was arrested early Thursday in San Antonio after investigators tied him to violent threats directed at Erika Kirk and a Turning Point USA summit set for next month. Jacob Wenske faces two felony charges of making a terroristic threat causing public fear.
San Antonio police said Wenske replied in April to a social media post about Turning Point USA's three-day Women’s Leadership Summit, writing, “I know exactly where to bomb,” and later, “I can’t wait to be the valet for her escort.” In a separate email from an account registered to him, investigators say he wrote, “Death to Erika Kirk and every single speaker there!! America will live on without those scum on this earth. Every Christian nationalist shall perish in the bombing that will take place at every single Turning Point rally and event.”
The threats were aimed at a conference that was already supposed to draw a large crowd. Kirk was scheduled to be a featured speaker at the Turning Point USA Women’s Leadership Summit, set for June 5-7 at the San Antonio Marriott Rivercenter on the River Walk. A TPUSA spokesperson said the organization takes all threats seriously and that all of its events include enhanced, multi-layered security measures enforced by both private security and local police.
The case lands at a moment when Kirk has become one of the most visible figures in the organization. She took over as CEO of Turning Point USA after the fatal shooting of her husband, Charlie Kirk, in Utah last September. In April, she canceled a planned appearance at a TPUSA event at the University of Georgia after organizers described receiving “very serious threats.”
That history makes the latest arrest more than a routine security matter. The messages investigators attributed to Wenske were not vague online rage; they were explicit, repeated and tied to a specific event, a specific speaker and a specific place. TPUSA said it will keep moving ahead with the summit, telling supporters, “We refuse to let threats silence us,” and saying it looks forward to a successful gathering June 5-7 in San Antonio for 2,500+ ladies attending the Women’s Leadership Summit.
Wenske was arrested early Thursday and is being held on $120,000 bond. The charges allege a threat involving public fear of serious bodily injury or public disruption, and the case now turns on what prosecutors can prove about the messages, the account they came from and the intent behind them. For Kirk and the group around her, the immediate answer is already clear: the threats were serious enough to trigger another security response, and this time the event remains on the calendar.
