Fla. Police: 'All Pictured are Dead' Written on Online Officer Photos
By Angie DiMichele
Source South Florida Sun-Sentinel
What to know
- A 46-year-old man was arrested for making a written threat after posting “All pictured are dead” on Facebook photos of West Palm Beach police officers.
- The threat was made using a fake account with a slain Polk County sheriff's deputy’s photo.
- The State Attorney’s Office is seeking to hold the suspect in custody, citing an ongoing risk to the community.
A man arrested Wednesday on a second-degree felony charge of written threat to kill allegedly commented on Facebook photos of numerous West Palm Beach Police personnel: “All pictured are dead,” according to a probable cause affidavit.
Bryan Slater, 46, of Palm Beach Gardens, was booked into the Palm Beach County jail on Wednesday, five days after he used a Facebook account with a fake name and a photo of a Polk County deputy who was killed in the line of duty in 2022 as the profile picture to comment the threat on photos of multiple West Palm Beach personnel, the affidavit said.
Slater wrote the comment late last Friday night under a post with a photo of Chief Tony Araujo, among others, that had been posted days earlier, according to the affidavit. The photos were of West Palm Beach Police personnel accepting awards and standing next to Araujo at a May 22 banquet in Palm Beach Gardens honoring first responders.
On Monday morning, the department’s public information officer saw the the threatening comment from an account with the username “Chris Kyililel” with a profile photo of Polk County Sheriff’s Deputy Blane Lane, who was struck by a bullet fired by a fellow deputy while they served a felony arrest warrant in October 2022, and reported it to command staff, according to the affidavit.
Facebook records showed the phone number associated with the profile was Slater’s, the affidavit said, and Slater after an arrest earlier this year had previously told police that his Facebook account was the “Chris Kyililel” account.
Slater was arrested in April on a stalking charge, Palm Beach County court records show. He provided the same cellphone number in documents related to that arrest as the phone number associated with the Facebook account used to post the threatening comment, according to the affidavit.
The State Attorney’s Office on Thursday filed a motion seeking to hold Slater in custody while the case is pending, citing that Slater “poses the threat of harm to the community.” He remained in the jail as of Thursday evening.
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