A 19-year-old Ohio man quit his job, went dark on his family, and spent $3,000 of his graduation money building a war chest to murder the President of the United States.
That man is Tycen Proper – and the only thing that stopped him was his own mother picking up the phone.
She made one phone call – and what the FBI found next should terrify every American.
What a Grieving Mother Found in Her Son's Room
Proper didn't buy a single gun and hide it under his mattress.
He built a military-grade strike package.
Authorities documented two firearms – an AR-15 rifle with a red dot sight and magnifier, and a 12-gauge semi-automatic shotgun with an American flag painted on it.
Three plate carriers loaded with .308-rated ballistic plates.
Thirteen loaded AR-15 magazines.
More than 1,000 rounds of 5.56 ammunition.
Dozens of 12-gauge shells including buckshot and rifled slugs.
Multiple fixed and folding blades plus a hatchet.
Two tactical headsets, chemical lights, and a compass.
And a full trauma kit – tourniquets, emergency bandages, wound seals, and gauze – because Proper expected to take fire and planned to keep fighting.
His father told law enforcement that Proper had quit his job to meet up with people he found online, conducting "missions" and "recons" with the group.
His mother went to authorities herself.
She called her cousin – the chief deputy of the Knox County Sheriff's Office – in a panic on June 10.
She told dispatchers her son had a pin dropped on Washington, D.C. and said it was going to be "a hit-and-run type of thing."
The Plan Was to Murder Trump, Vance, and Netanyahu in the Chaos
This wasn't a lone wolf with a grudge.
FBI investigators traced the network through encrypted Signal chats involving nearly two dozen participants organized into tiers – those willing to put themselves in harm's way, getaway drivers, drone operators, supply handlers, and funders.
The plot had two phases.
Phase one: fly small explosive-laden drones over the northern end of the White House UFC arena, detonating them to force an emergency evacuation of the 4,300 attendees – including more than 1,200 active-duty service members.
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Phase two: the escaping crowd would funnel south toward Pennsylvania Avenue, where hidden snipers had pre-mapped their positions to open fire on the fleeing targets.
The targets included President Trump, Vice President Vance, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Elon Musk, and multiple members of Congress.
Proper told investigators he wanted to "jump-start a revolution" in the United States.
FBI Director Kash Patel made clear the FBI stopped it cold.
What Kind of Group Recruits 19-Year-Olds to Kill the President
Before we get to the network, you need to know who Tycen Proper was talking to.
His mother told the FBI the group claimed to be "ex-military and Christian-based" and expressed "ultra-religious and anti-government sentiments" – citing grievances about government corruption, the Epstein files, and data centers draining community water supplies.
Proper also allegedly made antisemitic comments and expressed admiration for Hitler.
This isn't a political movement.
This is a fringe death cult that recruits broken young men online, wraps murderous ideology in patriotic language, and hands them a shopping list.
The FBI has documented this pattern for years – radicalized individuals with no formal terrorist connections, moving quickly from ideology to weapons to action, using encrypted apps for operational cover the entire time.
What made this case different is that the network was more sophisticated than most.
Abraham Hermosillo Alvarez of Nebraska – operating under the handle "Shepherd" – allegedly mapped out sniper coordinates and drone launch sectors while building a post-attack escape plan.
Proper described him as "aggressive in tactical planning" and believed him to be a former military member.
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Co-conspirators in Missouri, California, and Washington state were each assigned operational roles.
Jordan Rincker accepted $1,200 in cash from Alvarez and handed over a pump-action shotgun at an in-person meeting just two days before the attack.
These men had been planning since March.
They were ready.
The only thing that cracked the network open was a mother who loved her son more than she feared the consequences of turning him in – and her call set in motion a multi-state FBI operation that put seven men in federal custody before a single drone left the ground.
That is the only reason Trump celebrated his 80th birthday in the front row of a UFC fight instead of surviving an assassination attempt.
Sources:
- Adam Sabes, "Records reveal the massive arsenal Ohio man allegedly built to attack White House UFC event," Fox News, June 26, 2026.
- "Five Men Arrested and Charged in Plot to Attack and Kill Government Officials and Others Attending the Ultimate Fighting Championship at White House," U.S. Department of Justice, June 17, 2026.
- Stepheny Price, "LISTEN: Mom's 911 call helps feds tap out suspect in White House UFC terror plot," Fox News, June 23, 2026.
- "2 more suspects charged in multi-state White House UFC attack plot: Justice Department," Fox 5 DC, June 23, 2026.