Eugene man is accused of threatening to become “the next Kip Kinkel” on Facebook

A 31-year-old Eugene man is accused of making Facebook videos. He said he thought about “becoming the next Kip Kinkel” and was “tired of being teased,” according to a federal complaint.

Jeffrey Alan Voss was arrested by Eugene police last week and faces both federal and state charges.

Last Friday, Eugene police contacted the FBI about a series of live videos created by a Facebook user under the name “Jeff Jv” after a 911 caller reported seeing a video of a man claiming three minutes from Springfield High School and threatened to become the next Kinkel. Kipland P. Kinkel, now 42, was a freshman at another Springfield high school, Thurston High School, when he fatally shot his parents in May 1998 and then killed two Thurston students and wounded two dozen others.

According to an affidavit supporting the statement, investigators said they identified Voss as the man in the video because they had previously been in contact with him about threatening videos in 2020 The federal complaint was filed Monday.

In a Sept. 23 video, Voss mentioned that he was in Springfield and thinking about becoming “the next Kip Kinkel,” FBI agent Hunter E. Fikes wrote in the affidavit. According to the affidavit, Voss asked what it would take for people to stop picking on him and treat him with respect.

A second live video from Friday showed Voss in a home, holding a silver gun to his head and talking about how he was “tired of being picked on,” the affidavit said. At one point he cocked the gun, pointed it at the camera and said, “You're pushing a madman to his (expletive) limit,” then threatened to shoot others. according to the affidavit.

Kinkel, now 42, is serving a nearly 112-year prison sentence for killing his parents in their home on May 20, 1998, after school officials found a loaded stolen gun in his locker, and for killing him the next day in Thurston rampage was. His sentence included 25 years for each of his four murders, which he served concurrently, and nearly 87 years for wounding 24 others at school and attempting to murder a police officer after his arrest.

Voss is charged in federal court with transmitting threatening communications in interstate commerce. He is also charged with disorderly conduct in Lane County Circuit Court, alleging that he intended to cause “public inconvenience, annoyance and alarm” by knowingly making a report of an “imminent emergency and/or.” “a catastrophe” in or at a school initiated or spread the report is false.

Voss was investigated by the FBI in February 2020 after he posted threats to kill others and himself on Facebook and Twitter, according to an affidavit. At that time, his Facebook account had the username “Jeff Mo Fn V,” the affidavit states.

When questioned by FBI agents in March 2020, he said he did not have access to guns because they were stolen, and other people's social media posts disturbed him and caused him to react, they say in the affidavit. The FBI warned him at the time about the threatening nature of his posts and told him he would face federal charges if he continued.

Voss was charged with disorderly conduct Monday in Lane County Circuit Court. He has not yet appeared in federal court on the charges.

– Maxine Bernstein covers federal courts and criminal justice. Reach her at 503-221-8212, [email protected], follow her on X @maxoregonian or on LinkedIn.

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