An armed man, Nicholas John Roske, was arrested Wednesday near Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s house in Maryland after threatening to kill the justice. The 26-year-old from Simi Valley, California has been charged with attempting to kill or kidnap a US judge, Maryland federal court’s records show.

Roske’s name was released via an unsealed arrest affidavit. He was arrested by the Montgomery County Police Department at about 1:50 AM near Kavanaugh’s home. 

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He had arrived at the Justice’s residence in a taxi just after 1 AM. Roske was dressed in black and had a Glock 17 pistol, ammunition, a knife, zip ties, pepper spray, duct tape and other items. He told police he would use the tools to break into Kavanaugh’s house and kill him, according to a criminal complaint and affidavit filed in federal court in Maryland.

As per the affidavit, Nicholas John Roske told the police that he was upset by the leaked draft opinion suggesting the Supreme Court is about to overrule Roe v. Wade and the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. The 26-year-old thought that Kavanaugh would vote to loosen gun control laws, the said.

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The FBI affidavit stated that Roske told police “that he was upset about the leak of a recent Supreme Court draft decision regarding the right to abortion, as well as the recent school shooting in Uvalde, Texas,”

“Roske indicated that he believed the justice that he intended to kill would side with Second Amendment decisions that would loosen gun control laws,” it added.

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The 26-year-old had made a plan to kill the judge to “give his life purpose,” prosecutors said.

After Roske reached the Justice’s home, he called the Montgomery County Emergency Communications Center. He said that he was “having suicidal thoughts and had a firearm in his suitcase,” according to the allegations in the complaint.

Roske told the call taker he came from California to “kill a specific United States Supreme Court justice,” the court records added.