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Excerpt:Balmer said Shapiro must “stop having my friends killed” and that “…our people have been put through too much by that monster.”
Cody Balmer, the 38-year-old man who firebombed the Pennsylvania governor’s mansion in Harrisburg, was driven to carry out the act based on his anger over what Governor Josh Shapiro “wants to do to the Palestinian people.” Police listed this as a motive in their search warrant for the home of Balmer’s parents, where he was living, along with his storage unit and electronics.
A statement from Corporal Benjamin Forsythe of the Pennsylvania State Police in the warrant said that Balmer went after Shapiro “based upon perceived injustices to the people of Palestine” and Shapiro’s Jewish faith.
Police found Balmer’s cell phone wrapped in foil. Officers said Balmer’s actions “followed the ‘terrorist attack cycle,’ a series of steps terrorists take while committing an act of terrorism: preliminary target selection, initial surveillance and pre-attack surveillance, planning and execution and escape and exploitation.”
The warrant, obtained by Penn Live, also reveals that Balmer phoned 911 less than an hour after the attack, telling operators who he was, and leaving a direct message for Shapiro. Balmer said he “will not take part in his plans for what he wants to do to the Palestinian people.”
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