Shane Daley, a 40-year-old resident of Galway, New York, has been charged with making violent threats after allegedly leaving menacing voicemails. These threats were made toward Paulette Thompson, widow of the slain UnitedHealthcare CEO—Brian Thompson and he now is in deep, deep trouble with the law. Daley’s actions have raised alarms not only for their disturbing content but for the emotional toll on a family already grappling with tragedy.
Over the course of those two days, December 4 and 7, Daley placed four voicemails on Thompson’s office phone. These messages were supplemented with profanity-laced threats. In one voicemail, he called for the lynching of a local reporter, Brian Thompson, saying that someone should hang him “like a filthy animal.”