Police are investigating a chilling note promising "death" to American military personnel that was left on a U.S. service member's car windshield in Cobb County, Georgia, just three miles from Dobbins Air Reserve Base.
Cobb County Police Officer Alicia Chilton said the letter was found on a car that had a military license plate parked in a business complex parking lot on Powers Ferry Road near the base, Atlanta's Fox 5 TV affiliate reported.
The letter, written in all lower case, states:
“dear amercian [sic] soldier,
death to you coward women child killer and all the amercian [sic] military
mohammad will show no mercy on you
attacks will come full force
death is to come to you”
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Cobb County Police are working with military police on the investigation. Officials said they are taking the note "very seriously."
It’s the same letter posted to other military Facebook pages recently.
Chilton declined to say which branch of the military the targeted service member serves in. But the car would have been easily identified by the potential terrorist because of its military license plate.
Police also aren't giving the exact location of the parking lot where the note was left.
The threat level at Dobbins remains at FPCon Bravo, as it has since early May. That's the third highest level.
The crime is being investigated as a "terroristic threat."
The Marines and the Navy have considered eliminating vehicle decals to enter military bases as a safety precaution, the Daily News reported.
The note was found Monday, a week after Mohammad Youssef Abdulazeez went on a shooting spree at a reserve base and recruiting center in Chattanooga, Tennessee, killing five military personnel.
One of the five servicemen killed by Abdulazeez was from Cobb County, Georgia. Marine Skip Wells, 21, of Cobb was the youngest of the five who were gunned down by the jihadist.