Wannabe TikTok assassin Tycen Proper is having a bad week.
First, his plot to kill President Trump and other government officials during a UFC fight on the White House South Lawn came unraveled when his own mother ratted him out, landing him in a prison cell facing a possible life sentence.
And now social media users are having a field day with the teen terror plotter’s haggard looks after a mugshot in which the pasty 19-year-old resembles a man easily twice his age went viral.
The FBI foiled Proper and his ragtag crew of cyber-revolutionaries’ scheme to attack the June 14 UFC Freedom 250 event with explosive drones and funnel the panicking crowd into the path of a waiting team of snipers.
Proper was one of at least five “ultra-religious” guerrillas arrested last week in connection with the plot, which was hatched in a TikTok group called “Vanguard of the Old” in March before moving to a private Signal group called “Hunters.”
After his mugshot came out, X users were quick to point out that Proper’s grizzly neckbeard, orc-like features and premature male pattern baldness makes him look more like a man midway through his third divorce than a teenager not even old enough to buy alcohol, and showed no mercy in savaging him for his wizened appearance.
“Nineteen and he’s THAT bald? No wonder he hates the world,” a commenter on a thread featuring his mugshot quipped.
“Been working at the local auto parts store since he was 9,” another X user wrote.
“They grow ’em different in Ohio (worse),” said another commenter, taking potshot at Proper’s home state.
“Jesus, did he serve in the Civil War?” mused a fourth.
Others wondered whether his age was being reported in dog years, or even Earth years, while one commenter said he looked like “an elderly baby.”
Proper was arrested June 10 after his mother notified the Danville, Ohio Police Department and Knox County Sheriff’s Office with concerns about her son’s recent “firearms purchases and communicating with certain individuals online,” according to an affidavit filed in the Southern District of Ohio.
President Trump, Vice President JD Vance, tech billionaire Elon Musk and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were all named as potential targets, in addition to members of Congress and a West Virginia state lawmaker, according to court docs.
When FBI agents and local law enforcement raided the home where Proper lives with his parents, they found a “large quantity of boxes of spent ammunition,” “spent cartridge casings,” and “other tactical clothing.”
He faces charges including conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States, attempted murder of an officer or employee of the United States, possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, and receipt or transfer of a firearm used to commit a felony.
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