Newsweek’s Daniel Villarreal reports that Terry King, who is currently seeking the sheriff office, sent the messages to a relative in October 2013.
King attended a wedding where he saw two men holding hands, snapped a picture of the couple, and said he wanted to kill them.“THESE guys are holding hands.
Where is my fricken gun,” King wrote.“They kiss and stuff Ew,” the relative eventually replied.King then replied, “Bang bang.”Related: Sheriff insists racist “White Guys Only” Grindr profile doesn’t belong to his officerThe texts began circulating last month after a local activist named Bob Reid obtained them through the Michigan Freedom of Information Act.