A Wisconsin QAnon believer shot soldiers with a paintball gun days after traveling to DC in hopes [View all]
A Wisconsin QAnon believer shot soldiers with a paintball gun days after traveling to DC in hopes of a phony Trump inauguration, federal investigators say
rgreenspan@businessinsider.com (Rachel E. Greenspan) 13 hrs ago
A man with QAnon slogans spray-painted onto his car drove to an Army Reserve Center in Wisconsin and shot soldiers with an airsoft paintball gun, investigators said in a federal criminal complaint filed in the Eastern District of Wisconsin on Friday.
It was just over a week after he traveled to Washington, DC, for what many QAnon followers believed would be a new inauguration for former President Donald Trump on March 4, the complaint said.
Ian Alan Olson, 31, is accused of entering the Wisconsin Army Reserve Center in Pewaukee on March 15, shouting, "This is for America," and shooting paintballs at soldiers at the reserve station. The paintball gun he wielded was styled as an AR-15, according to the criminal complaint reviewed by Insider. None of the soldiers were hit by the paintballs, according to the complaint, which was prepared by an FBI Special Agent.
Olson has been charged with two misdemeanors: attacking US servicemen "on account of service" and for assaulting officers, court documents show. The Daily Beast first reported the charges on Friday.
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Officials: Wisconsin QAnon supporter fired paintballs at Army Reserve members in Pewaukee
By: Michele Fiore
Posted: Mar 22, 2021 12:52 PM CDT | Updated: Mar 22, 2021 10:24 PM CDT
Pewaukee police say the paintball gun looked like an AR-15 assault rifle, terrifying about a dozen reservists out in the parking lot.
Shots were fired, they took cover, and in the end, the man with the extremist views was arrested.
Exactly one week ago, police say the blue Subaru with QAnon slogans spray painted on it showed up at the Pewaukee Army Reserve base, and the driver, 31-year-old Ian Alan Olson, got out and aimed what looked like an assault rifle at the Army reservists, shouting, "This is for America!"
"The scene was a little chaotic in the sense that reserve members didn't know what exactly was all going on at the time," said Pewaukee Police Lt. Mark Garry.
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