Federal prosecutors said Thursday that an Ohio “incel” who conspired to kill women at a university was sentenced to nearly six years in prison.
The Cincinnati U.S. attorney's office claimed Tres Genco, 24, had bought a bulletproof vest, skull mask, rifle, and handgun magazines and sought to kill women “out of hatred, jealousy and revenge.”
The plot was never executed and no one was wounded. Genco pleaded guilty to one count of hate crime attempt in October 2022 after being arrested in 2021.
Genco was sentenced to six years and eight months in prison on Thursday after almost three years in imprisonment since his July 2021 arrest. Prosecutors claimed Genco was “fueled by misogynistic hatred” and “plotted the mass murder of women and intended to carry it out.”
According to court documents, he searched the internet for a specific university, although officials have not revealed the plot's university. Genco of Hillsboro, a small town east of Cincinnati, called himself a “incel,” meaning “involuntary celibate.” Most of the men in this online forum detest women and think they deserve sex. Genco “idolized Elliot Rodger,” authorities claimed, and posted online that he associated with the 22-year-old California gunman who randomly killed six people in Isla Vista, California, in 2014 and then shot himself.
He bought the mask, bulletproof vest, and 5.56 mm gun in January and February 2019, and his “interest in Incel philosophy and violence escalated” in July, prosecutors noted in a sentencing memorandum.
Genco wrote in August 2019 that he detested women, incels, and “I will slaughter out of hatred, jealousy, and revenge.” On Friday night, Genco's attorney, Richard Monahan, did not answer. In a sentencing memorandum, Monahan said any plan “was not significantly close, as compared with the typical ‘attempt offender,’ to the commission of the substantive offense.” When in Greece, Genco composed the manifesto intoxicated, he says.
U.S. Attorney Kenneth L. Parker said Genco planned to kill innocent women in this state because he loathed them. “Everybody deserves to live without violence or terror.” Genco's attorney requested a sentence of time already served, while prosecutors requested the maximum 12½ years allowed under a plea agreement, according to records.
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