A transgender lady from Oregon has been charged with threatening her coworkers online and threatening to kill Black people, Jews, and immigration.
The FBI first became aware of Elizabeth Ballesteros West, 56, who is accused with communicating an interstate threat, in September 2023 after receiving a report about her internet activities, according to the Justice Department.
According to an affidavit, investigators found a threat that West had made about an alleged mass shooting that would target her coworkers.
“I’m too old to keep looking for jobs and I’ve had it up to here being bullied by trans phobic a–hole I am left with no alternative,” she allegedly wrote on her Facebook page. “I’ll probably have to go out in a blaze of glory.”
“So there really isn’t any point living anymore? I’m just gonna have to do what I have to do and pray for the gods to forgive me,” The affidavit stated.
Authorities said that pictures of two guns were posted with the message. According to the paper, West acknowledged sharing her suicide intentions on Facebook during an FBI interview.
“West told the interviewing agents she was lonely and felt suicidal in the past,” the affidavit stated. “She explained that she struggles with depression and had reached out to the White Bird Crisis line in Eugene in the past when she was feeling suicidal. West said her boyfriend passed away in 2017, and she struggled to find a partner since.”
In an additional interview with the FBI, West disclosed that she had vile beliefs about Jews and immigrants in addition to a bias toward Black people stemming from an attack years prior.
“West also feels that black customer service agents’ mis-gender her intentionally,” the affidavit said. “West’s boyfriend, who died in 2017, had a Nazi flag. After his death she found the flag and kept it. West has not sent images of herself with the Nazi flag to anyone.”
“West has mixed feelings about Nazi sentiments,” it further states. “She is juxtaposed on the climate in Israel; West feels Jewish people treat Palestinians in the same manner as the Nazis treated the Jews. West is also angry that immigrants come to the United States and receive welfare and food stamps on her tax dollars, yet she is unable to access the same benefits.”
In her interviews with the FBI, West discussed her desire for gender reassignment surgery as well as her problematic relationships.
In addition to other hateful posts, West is accused of posting and resharing videos, memes, and other content on X in November that supported Adolf Hitler, violence against Black people, Jews, and immigrants, and a live broadcast of the horrific Christchurch mosque slaughter in New Zealand.
“A Nazi dominatrix from Hell, who is tired of the blackening of America and Europe and ready to stand up to the Black orcs and the Jewish Wizards,” according to her biography.
West disclosed her numerous weaponry to the FBI on January 3. The FBI carried out a search order for her residence and car on January 9. Tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition, firearm attachments, eleven handguns, sixteen rifles, 48 drawings, a black and white composition notebook with notes, and a black book that fit the description of West’s “black shadow” diary were all taken by the authorities.
