Tres Genco, 22, pleads guilty to plotting university mass murder

A 22-year-old self-described “incel” is facing life in prison after his plan to “slaughter” 3000 university students in a horrific attack was foiled.

A self-described “incel” is facing life in prison after pleading guilty to plotting to “slaughter” 3000 female students at a US university.

Tres Genco, 22, wrote a manifesto in which he said he wanted to “slaughter” women at an Ohio university “out of hatred, jealousy and revenge” and referred to death as the “great equaliser”, according to court documents, New York Post reports.

Genco, from Hillsboro, Ohio, pleaded guilty to planning a mass shooting at the unnamed university on Tuesday, federal prosecutors announced.

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Tres Genco pleaded guilty to plotting a massacre at an unnamed university. Picture: Instagram

On the day he wrote the manifesto, he searched online for sororities at the unnamed university in Ohio, prosecutors said.

The self-described incel – or “involuntary celibate” – is part of an online community of men who “seek to commit violence in support of their belief that women unjustly deny them sexual or romantic attention to which they believe they are entitled,” prosecutors said.

Genco posted hundreds of times on a popular incel website from July 2019 through mid-March 2020, according to prosecutors.

Investigators discovered a note from the 22-year-old that said he planned to “aim big” in his planned massacre, with a goal of 3000 female victims. In the note, he referenced the same date as the 2014 mass shooting carried out by Elliot Rodger, a college outcast who killed six and wounded 13 outside a University of California, Santa Barbara, sorority house.

Elliot Rodger killed six people and wounded 13 others in a 2014 university mass shooting. Picture: Supplied

In 2019, Genco bought tactical gloves, a bulletproof vest, a hoodie bearing the word “Revenge,” cargo pants, a Bowie knife, a skull face mask, two Glock 17 magazines, a 9mm Glock 17 clip, and a holster, officials said.

In December 2019, he attended army basic training and was discharged.

In January 2020, he “conducted surveillance” at a university in Ohio. The same day, he searched the internet for “planning a shooting crime” and “When does preparing for a crime become an attempt?”

The same month, Genco wrote a document titled “Isolated” which he described as “the writings of the deluded and homicidal”. Genco signed the document, “Your hopeful friend and murderer,” prosecutors said.

A Hillsboro man pleaded guilty today to an attempted hate crime for plotting to conduct a mass shooting of women at an Ohio university. Tres Genco self-identified as an Incel or “involuntary celibate” and has been in custody since his arrest by #FBI agents in July 2021. pic.twitter.com/exWlnvlQWL

— FBI Cincinnati (@FBICincinnati) October 11, 2022

Local police officers raided Genco’s Ohio home on March 12, 2020, and recovered a Glock-style 9mm semiautomatic pistol, with no manufacturer’s marks or serial number, hidden in a heating vent in his bedroom.

Inside the boot of Genco’s car, police found another gun along with several loaded magazines, body armour and boxes of ammunition, prosecutors said.

Genco pleaded guilty to one count of attempting to commit a hate crime which carries a maximum sentence of life in prison as it involved an attempt to kill.

A sentencing date has not been set.

This post originally appeared on New York Post and has been republished with permission