A South Carolina man has pleaded guilty in federal court to intentionally defacing buildings at a Charlotte complex used for Jewish worship, education and community activities.
Dalton Ray Mullis, 24, admitted placing threatening antisemitic flyers on several buildings at Shalom Park on 19 January, including the Charlotte Jewish Day School, a Holocaust memorial and an employee building. The filed plea material described images including a noose, a swastika and a Nazi-associated death’s-head symbol. Surveillance cameras captured part of the conduct.
The plea resolves the federal hate-crime charge at the trial level, but sentencing remains outstanding. Mullis is in federal custody and no sentencing date has been set.
The Justice Department said the investigation involved the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police and several South Carolina agencies. The guilty plea is a formal admission to the charged conduct; it should not be confused with the separate social-media material that prosecutors also described.
Official Justice Department release
