Swalwell Receives Threatening Tweet, Lab Manager Fired In Connection

*Note: Graphic language and imagery contained.

DUBLIN, CA — A manager at an Indianapolis lab was fired for allegedly threatening Rep. Eric Swalwell over Twitter.

Former Patients Choice Laboratories employee Jonathan Reeser allegedly sent Swalwell a profanity-laden DM saying that he hoped his family was raped and murdered.

“I hope your family is raped and murdered and I hope you get tied to the back of a truck and drug 10,000 miles until you body is ripped to pieces you scum,” the message reads. “I wish I saw you in person I’d break your f– face so fast you’d have plastic surgery and never look the same again.”

Swalwell screenshotted the message and posted it in a Thursday evening tweet that reads, “Does anyone know Jonathan Reeser of Indiana? Why would he say threaten to kill my family?” Swalwell then attached a link to Reeser’s LinkedIn profile, which has since been deactivated.

Patients Choice Laboratories, a medical testing lab, tweeted Friday morning that Reeser had been fired. “We were appalled by the recent comments made by one of our employees,” the company said in a statement. “We do not stand for, or condone, offensive or threatening behaviors.”

Swalwell is no stranger to deadly threats, and he is not shy about sharing them publicly. In August, he tweeted a recording of a voicemail in which a man said he hoped someone would cut his threat and decapitate him and his entire family. In October, 22-year-old Joshua Hall of Pennsylvania pleaded guilty to making the threatening phone calls.