FBI discovers plan to blow up hospital while investigating man who planned to kill Beto O’Rourke

A white nationalist’s plan to blow up a hospital was foiled after the FBI began investigating another bombing plot by a U.S. Army soldier who also planned to kill Beto O’Rourke.

Timothy Wilson, 36, was killed during a gunfight when the FBI attempted to serve him a warrant in Belton, Missouri. Wilson was rushed to a nearby hospital when he died from his injuries.

When the FBI arrived, Wilson was attempting to detonate what he thought was a bomb but was actually an inert device. 

Wilson was incited to commit the act after the mayor of Belton issued a shelter in place order in response to the coronavirus outbreak, according to the New York Times. 

‘With the current COVID-19 pandemic, Wilson decided to accelerate his plan to detonate a [car bomb] to cause severe harm and mass casualties,’ the FBI wrote in an alert. 

‘Wilson may have also believed the additional stress on society posed by the COVID-19 pandemic provided unique opportunities to exploit.’ 

According to the Informant, Wilson was associated with the neo-Nazi groups National Socialist Movement (NSM) and Vorherrschaft Division (VSD).

Wilson posted on social media site Telegram that coronavirus was an ‘excuse to destroy our people.’ 

He added, ‘Mark my words it’s coming I hope people are ready.’

The FBI learned of the plot from Jarrett William Smith, 24, a white supremacist who was an active duty member of the U.S. Army, according to Law & Crime. 

Smith had plans to kill former presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke and blow up a major American news network. 

Jarrett Smith, who was an active duty member of the U.S. Army, passed on ‘instructions on how to make an [improvised explosive device] with another … Domestic Terrorism (DT) subject’

The FBI arrested Smith in September 2019 when he ‘distributed information relating to explosives, destructive devices, and weapons of mass destruction’

Smith also planned to kill former presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke and blow up a major American news network

Smith also had plans to go to Ukraine to fight with a violent far-right group, and pass along information online on how to make bombs

Smith was arrested in September 2019 when the FBI says he ‘distributed information relating to explosives, destructive devices, and weapons of mass destruction,’ which violates federal law.

He also had plans to join a far-right extremist group in the Ukraine. 

The FBI says Wilson shared with Smith ‘instructions on how to make an [improvised explosive device] with another … Domestic Terrorism (DT) subject.’ This could mean the two men belong to a network of white nationalists who are planning domestic terrorist acts.   

The FBI had been tracking Wilson for months after they pinpointed him as a potentially violent extremist, driven by racial animus, religious zealotry, and distrust of the government.

The agency said, ‘Wilson was actively planning to commit an act of domestic terrorism – a bombing – and over the course of several months considered several targets.’ 

Those targets included ‘a school with a large number of black students, as well as a mosque and a synagogue,’ according to the New York Times.

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But after the coronavirus pandemic hit, Wilson shifted his focus to bombing the hospital.

Specifically, Wilson had planned on using the ‘vehicle-borne’ explosive mechanism to blow up a hospital near Kansas City. 

He purposely targeted a hospital treating people suffering from coronavirus to inflict ‘severe harm and mass casualties.’

The FBI says Wilson was armed when they attempted to arrest him. At the time, he was picking up what he thought was a truck bomb but wasn’t actually a bomb.

Wilson was angered by the decision of the mayor of Belton to issued a ‘stay-at-home’ order

Timothy Wilson lived with his grandmother (pictured right) at a house in Belton, Missouri

Wilson was shot and killed by FBI agents while trying to pick up what he thought was a bomb truck at this facility

This sign near a highway in Kansas City asks people to stay home to stop spread of coronavirus

Kansas City has a 30-day mandatory ‘stay-at-home’ order in place requiring all residents to remain in their homes during that time 

According to the agency statement, Wilson grew frustrated with federal government efforts to slow coronavirus and ‘decided to accelerate his plan to use a vehicle-born improvised explosive device in an attempt to cause severe harm and mass casualties.’ 

Wilson was a fan of a now-defunct white supremacist group called ‘The Order,’ which had been around for 30 years for the FBI disbanded it. The leader of the group was a man named Robert Mathews.

On a Facebook post, Wilson wrote, ‘Uncle Bob,’ and wrote recently, ‘Don’t be the cuck that gives up without a fight. Make uncle bob proud.’  

The group was held together by its white Christian identity and its members believed that taxes were ‘a conspiracy by the federal government to take money from white Christian Americans and put it in the hands of Jews.’ 

‘If you don’t think this whole thing was engineered by Jews as a power grab here is more proof of their plans.’ 

‘Jews have been playing the long game we are the only ones standing in their way.’ 

Wilson was also estranged from his wife, who filed divorce from in last year, Missouri court records show.