Far-right influencer Nick Fuentes has shared footage of an armed man trying to gain entry to his home in what he has called an attempt on his life.
The 26-year-old posted clips on his X profile concerning the incident that he says unfolded near his home in Berwyn, Illinois, late on Wednesday evening.
The clips shared show a masked individual outside his home with a crossbow and handgun who, at one point, shouts ‘Yo Nick.’
Other footage shows the man trying a side door at the property and scouting around the backyard of the home, the address of which was shared online last month.
Fuentes’ account lines up with local police who say they attended the same street and shot and killed an individual, who they identified as John Lyons.
Berwyn Police Department said that they responded to reports of a man with a gun who forced his way into a separate home where he shot and killed two dogs.
He then ran into a nearby yard where he refused police commands to stop, before opening fire on cops who shot and killed him.
Officers say he was the suspect in the fatal shooting of three people in Mahomet, about 120 miles southwest of Chicago before then traveling to Berwyn.
The clips shared show a masked individual outside his home with a crossbow and handgun who, at one point, shouts ‘Yo Nick’
Fuentes’ account lines up with local police who say they attended the same street and shot and killed an individual, who they identified as John Lyons
Fuentes is seen here holding a rally at the Lansing Capitol, in Lansing, Michigan on Wednesday, November 11, 2020
Posting on X, Fuentes said: ‘Last night an armed killer made an attempt on my life at my home, which was recently doxed on this platform.
‘The gunman carried a pistol, crossbow, and incendiary devices. I believe he intended to kill me. He is now dead. I am okay!’
Fuentes also said that he would now be moving house due to the incident and that he would have 24 hour security to protect himself.
He has also asked his followers to contribute to the cost of the private security, which he claims runs $13,000 a week, and to rebuild his studio.
He would only accept donations in cryptocurrency, saying that he was banned from banking services.
Fuentes said he had been livestreaming adding that: ‘Doxing is not a game. This nihilistic lynch mob behavior must end before anyone else is killed.’
DailyMail.com has approached police to confirm if Fuentes was indeed targeted in the incident and the man seen in the clips was the same involved in the shooting.
They said in an initial press release that Lyons was gunned down by officers after disobeying orders to stop while in the yard of a property.
His neighbors told the Chicago Sun Times that they heard yelling outside of their window late on Wednesday night.
Fuentes said that he would now be moving house due to the incident and that he would have 24 hour security to protect himself in a series of posts made to his X account
The helmet wearing man can be seen here trying a side door at the Illinois property on Wednesday night
Other footage shows the man trying a side door at the property and scouting around the backyard of the home, the address of which was shared online last month
Police said in an initial press release that Lyons was gunned down by officers after disobeying orders to stop while in the yard of a property
Bianca, who didn’t want her last name used, said: ‘It was like hearing a movie. All I heard was police calling ‘John’, and yelling ‘Put your f****** hands up.’
Another neighbor known as Matt, who also didn’t want his second name used, said he spoke with Fuentes who told him the shooter was trying to kill him.
Bianca added that she believes Fuentes was the target of the gunman, adding: ‘[His] address gets doxed and then this guy ends up here.
‘I don’t think it was a coincidence that someone who killed three people down south ended up here. This guy is from miles away, why is he here?’
This incident wouldn’t be the first time Fuentes had been confronted at his own home after his personal information was leaked online.
The Berwyn Police Department responded to the address last month after Marla Rose, 57, appeared at his residence following a controversial social media post.
Fuentes has posted on his X page after President-elect Donald Trump won the election saying: ‘Your body, my choice’, sparking widespread fury.
Some social media users responded by sharing images of his house, captioned, ‘Your house, our choice.’
He was arrested for battery, and proudly shared his mugshot to his social media pages
Footage captured by Rose and widely circulated online appears to Fuentes open the door and spray her with what she claims was pepper spray.
Rose claims that that he pepper-sprayed her, pushed her onto the concrete outside his home and broke her phone.
According to a police report filed the next day, Rose showed no visible physical injuries but had ‘watery’ eyes.
He was later arrested for battery, and proudly shared his mugshot to his social media pages.
Fuentes, his lawyer and Rose all appeared for a brief hearing via Zoom before the Fourth District courthouse in Maywood on Thursday, according to the Sun Times.
The judge in the case ordered the pair to not have any contact with each other while the case was pending, and set a status hearing for January 16.
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