A concerned Ohio mother may have prevented a potentially devastating attack targeting President Donald Trump’s UFC event at the White House.
According to federal court documents, the woman contacted authorities on June 10 after becoming alarmed by her 19-year-old son, Tycen Proper. She reportedly noticed that he had purchased firearms, ammunition, body armor and tactical equipment while exchanging maps and images of locations near Washington, DC, with people he met online.
Proper allegedly told his family that the group was preparing reconnaissance and “hit-and-run missions.” His father said the teenager planned to leave home during the June 13 weekend to meet other members of the group. The family voluntarily surrendered his equipment to law enforcement.
The FBI subsequently examined Proper’s phone and allegedly uncovered encrypted discussions about an attack during UFC Freedom 250, held on the White House South Lawn on June 14 as part of Trump’s 80th-birthday celebrations.