The body of Navy veteran Jarvis McIntyre has been reportedly found in a Texas park after he was reported missing two weeks ago.

McIntyre, 26, was reportedly last seen running in John James Park on June 8 and he was heard in a 911 call saying he was being chased by a “racist”, his mother told local outlet KENS5.

McIntyre’s mother, Monikki Williams Tippet, told the outlet that a body found days later at the San Antonio park had tattoos resembling those on her missing son.

Tippet says she and her family believes someone hurt her son because he was Black and gay.

“I want answers now. I want this person found,” she said, adding that her son “didn’t deserve this. They took my baby’s life for no reason.”

McIntyre is from St. Louis, Texas and had flown to San Antonio to visit his two sisters during his birthday weekend.

He was supposed to return home on Sunday 9 June, but he tragically never made it home.

On Monday June 17, Maryland’s governor issued pardons for more than 175,000 marijuana convictions.

This initiative comes almost two years after Maryland voters approved a constitutional amendment legalizing recreational marijuana for people 21 and older.

Maryland marijuana convictions pardons

The pardons by Gov. Wes Moore will forgive low-level marijuana possession and certain paraphernalia charges, the governor’s office said – noting it was possible for a person to have more than one conviction pardoned.

“This is about changing how both government and society view those who have been walled off from opportunity because of broken and uneven policies,” Moore said at a signing event Monday.

Disproportionate impact

The governor described his executive order as “the most sweeping state-level pardon” in the country’s history.

Acknowledging the disproportionate impact the issue has on Black and brown people, the event coincided this week with Juneteenth, which commemorates the end of slavery in the US, The Washington Post reported.

Maryland marijuana convictions pardon stats

The executive order will result in the pardons of more than 150,000 misdemeanor convictions for simple possession of cannabis and more than 18,000 misdemeanor convictions for use or possession with intent to use drug paraphernalia, the governor office said. About 25% of those convictions stem from the city of Baltimore.

Mark Adams Prieto, 58, of Arizona allegedly plotted a mass shooting targeting African Americans and people of color at a rap concert in Atlanta in May, looking to incite a race war ahead of the presidential election, federal authorities said.

Man allegedly plotted mass shooting

Prieto was indicted by a federal grand jury Tuesday, June 11 on charges of firearms trafficking, transfer of a firearm for use in a hate crime and possession of an unregistered firearm.

Indictment

The indictment follows a months long investigation by the FBI that resulted in  his arrest last month, the Justice Department said.

Investigation into Mark Adams Prieto

The investigation into Prieto began in October, after a confidential source reported to the FBI in Phoenix that an individual, later identified as Prieto, had expressed a desire to incite a race war prior to the presidential election, the arrest affidavit obtained by NBC News states.

Alarming comments

The source told authorities that they had spoken to Prieto on more than 15 occasions over the course of three years at various gun shows. The chats grew from small talk to political conversations, the affidavit says. Within the last year, the source told authorities that Prieto began making suspicious and alarming comments, including “advocating for a mass shooting,” and specifically targeting Blacks, Jews or Muslims, the affidavit says.

Mark Adams Prieto (Photo Credit: Department of Justice)

Prieto was a vendor at gun shows in Arizona and would trade firearms from his personal collection, using only cash deals or trades to evade the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives, the affidavit says.

Investigation into Mark Adams Prieto

From January to March, the FBI began surveillance on Prieto.

On Jan. 21, Prieto told the source and an undercover FBI agent acting as an associate of the source at a gun show in Phoenix that he wanted them to help him carry out a mass shooting targeting African Americans at a yet-to-be-determined rap concert in Atlanta, the affidavit says.

According to the affidavit, Prieto said: “The reason I say Atlanta. Why, why is Georgia such a f——up state now? When I was a kid that was one of the most conservative states in the country. Why is it not now? Because as the crime got worse in L.A., St. Louis, and all these other cities, all the [N-words] moved out of those [places] and moved to Atlanta. That’s why it isn’t so great anymore. And they’ve been there for a couple, several years.”

He also expressed that he specifically wanted to target a rap concert because there would be a “high concentration of African Americans there” and he planned to leave confederate flags after the shooting to send a message that “we’re going to fight back now, and every whitey will be the enemy across the whole country,” and to shout “whities out here killing, what’s we gonna do” and “KKK all the way,” the affidavit says. Prieto said he wanted to show “no mercy, no quarter.”

Weapons

Prieto also allegedly told the source and undercover agent what types of weapons he planned to use, suggested that they travel to Atlanta before the attack to store weapons in the area, and stressed the importance that the shooting results in a high body count.

About a month later, while under surveillance, Prieto went to a gun show in Phoenix and walked to the source’s vendor booth, where he asked the source and the undercover agent if they still planned to participate in the attack, the affidavit says.

On the second day of that February gun show, Prieto is alleged to have sold a firearm to the undercover agent for $2,000.

On March 23, at a gun show in Prescott Valley, Prieto told the undercover agent that he still planned to move forward with the attack, saying that if they waited until after the election, “they might have everything in place you can’t even drive, you’ll be stopped,” the affidavit says. He also said that the targeted event would likely be a rap concert at State Farm Arena in Atlanta scheduled to take place May 14 and May 15, or sometime in June or July, according to the affidavit. Authorities did not specify what concert.

Prieto also allegedly told the undercover agent that he wanted them to wear hoodies, according to the affidavit, because he believed no one was going to be suspicious about someone wearing a hoodie at a rap concert.

Arrest

At another gun show in April in Prescott Valley, the affidavit says, when the undercover agent asked Prieto whether the attack would still take place in May, he said he wanted to push it back.

Prieto was later arrested on a New Mexico interstate on May 14. He admitted to knowing the undercover agent and the confidential source and to having discussed with them conducting an attack on a public venue in Atlanta like a “rock” concert attended by young people and minorities.

“However, he told agents that he did not intend to go forward with the attack,” the affidavit states.

According to authorities, Prieto is in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service for transport from New Mexico to Arizona.