亚利桑那州男子Rene Ortiz威胁杀害特朗普与哈里斯被判38个月：曾扬言处决当选总统、在就职典礼开枪
位于美国亚利桑那州皮纳尔县 Casa Grande 市的 56 岁男子 Rene Ortiz，因在 2024 年大选期间书面威胁杀害两党总统候选人，10 月 20 日在 Phoenix 的联邦法院被判处 38 个月监禁。据美国司法部亚利桑那州联邦检察官办公室（U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Arizona）发布的新闻稿，资深联邦地区法官 Stephen M. McNamee 当日作出判决；Ortiz 已于 2026 年 6 月 8 日被联邦陪审团裁定三项重罪成立：两项「威胁总统继任者」罪与一项「威胁前总统」罪。
检方称，2024 年 11 月 5 日大选当天，Ortiz 把一份书面威胁送到 Phoenix 的联邦法院，威胁要「用一把装有 6 发子弹弹匣的 M-16A2 制式步枪，处决新当选的美国总统」，对象同时指向时任副总统哈里斯与特朗普两名候选人。大选结果揭晓后，他又于 2024 年 11 月 25 日把第二份威胁送到 Tucson 的联邦法院，扬言要在 2025 年 1 月 20 日的就职典礼上枪击「即将就职的、欺诈当选的美国总统」。
美国特勤局（U.S. Secret Service）人员就两份威胁讯问 Ortiz 时，他重申自己确有发出威胁的意图。2025 年 1 月 17 日，即就职典礼三天前，Ortiz 被逮捕。此案由特勤局主导调查、美国法警局（U.S. Marshals Service）协助，联邦助理检察官 Amy Chang 与 Abbie Broughton 负责起诉，案件编号 25-CR-00153-PHX-SMM。
据美联社报道，Ortiz 是一名海军陆战队退伍军人。Phoenix 当地电台 KTAR 报道称，他向特工表示，自己对退伍军人事务部心怀不满，声称该部曾承诺在他辞职后支付其学费、却在他入学后拒绝报销；其公设辩护人在为期四天的审判中主张，这些威胁出自一名患有精神疾病、并无真正实施意图的人，心理学家出庭作证称 Ortiz 患有分裂情感性障碍与边缘型人格障碍。陪审团最终裁定三项重罪全部成立。
Arizona Man Rene Ortiz Sentenced to 38 Months for Threatening to Kill President Trump and Former Vice President Harris
Rene Ortiz, 56, of Casa Grande, in Pinal County, Arizona, was sentenced on October 20 in federal court in Phoenix to 38 months in prison for written threats to kill both major-party presidential candidates during the 2024 election. According to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Arizona, Senior U.S. District Judge Stephen M. McNamee imposed the sentence. A federal jury had convicted Ortiz on June 8, 2026, of two felony counts of making threats against successors to the presidency and one felony count of making threats against a former president.
Prosecutors said that on Election Day, November 5, 2024, Ortiz delivered to the federal courthouse in Phoenix a written threat to "execute the newly elected President of the United States by firing an M-16A2 service rifle with a magazine of 6 rounds," directed at both candidates, former Vice President Kamala Harris and President Donald Trump. After the election, on November 25, 2024, he delivered a second threat to the federal courthouse in Tucson, vowing to shoot "the incoming fraudulent elected President of the United States" at the inauguration on January 20, 2025.
When U.S. Secret Service agents interviewed Ortiz about the threats, he repeated his intent to make them. He was arrested on January 17, 2025, three days before the inauguration. The Secret Service investigated the case with assistance from the U.S. Marshals Service. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Amy Chang and Abbie Broughton prosecuted the case, No. 25-CR-00153-PHX-SMM.
According to the Associated Press, Ortiz is a Marine veteran. Phoenix radio station KTAR reported that he told agents he had a grievance with the Department of Veterans Affairs, claiming the agency had promised to pay for his schooling if he quit his job but failed to reimburse him after he enrolled. At his four-day trial, his public defender argued the threats were the actions of a mentally ill man with no intention of carrying them out, and a psychologist testified that Ortiz has schizoaffective disorder and borderline personality disorder. The jury convicted him on all three felony counts.
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图片来源：位于 Phoenix 的 Sandra Day O'Connor 联邦法院大楼，Ortiz 的威胁信曾送至 Phoenix 联邦法院。照片：Gonzo fan2007 摄，CC BY，经维基共享资源／Sandra Day O'Connor U.S. Courthouse in Phoenix. Photo: Gonzo fan2007, CC BY, via Wikimedia Commons
