By DAMIEN FISHER, InDepthNH.org
A Hooksett man is in jail after he allegedly told his roommate he was planning to kill Gov. Kelly Ayotte with homemade pipe bombs during an anti-semitic rant.
Tristan Anderson, 22, was arrested late last month on charges of felony threat to a public official and misdemeanor criminal threatening. Though he’s not yet been indicted by a grand jury, Anderson is being held without bail. The case was recently bound over from the Hooksett District Court to the Merrimack Superior Court for presentation to a grand jury.
According to the complaint filed in court, Anderson told his roommate about his plans to attack Ayotte via a Snapchat text conversation and showed the roommate the bomb materials he had gathered.
“I’m going to target the NH Mayor Kelly ayott [sic].
With my weapon of mass destruction.
These jew feds need to fucking die.
Same with polygamy.
WHICH WAS CREATED BY THE FICKING [sic] JEWS AND ISRAEL DEEP STATE.
Im [sic] going insane.
I’m not fucking lying though.”
The roommate told her ex-boyfriend about her concerns over Anderson’s comments, as well as the fact he had guns, according to the complaint written by New Hampshire State Police Detective Sgt. Christopher Elphick. The ex-boyfriend then contacted Pembroke Police on Aug. 28, and soon State Police were involved in the investigation.
The roommate told Elphick that Anderson showed her metal tubes he planned to make into pipe bombs using nuts and bolts stuffed inside the tubes. Additionally, Anderson was buying fireworks in order to gather the necessary explosive material, the roommate told Elphick. Anderson was arrested the same day, and he’s been locked up ever since.
If Anderson’s alleged plot is actually motivated by his self-professed anti-semitism, it could be part of a growing extremist problem in New Hampshire. Anderson’s arrest comes weeks after a reputedly violent neo Nazi group, the Blood Tribe, marched outside the State House while carrying swastika flags.
“[Blood Tribe’s] stated goal is to turn the United States into an all-white ethnostate through the violent removal of all Jews and non-white minorities they see as enemies of the white race,” according to George Washington University’s Program on Extremism.
Members of the Blood Tribe allegedly fought with a passerby during the Aug. 2 incident in Concord while a witness reported they were chanting racist slogans like “minorities should disappear.” The group later left the city in the back of a U-Haul truck. Neither Concord Police nor the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office have announced any arrests stemming from the incident.
The New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office is currently litigating a civil rights violations lawsuit against Christopher Hood and his neo Nazi group, NSC-131. The extremist group is responsible for a violent protest at a Drag Queen Story Hour event held at the Teatotaler Cafe in Concord in 2023.