<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;">A Utah man who made threats against Joe Biden was shot and killed by FBI agents on Wednesday, just hours before a visit by the US president to the western state.</span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Federal Bureau of Investigation confirmed that a suspect was killed when special agents tried to serve arrest and search warrants at a residence in Provo, a city south of Salt Lake City.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The bureau declined to identify the slain man, saying an investigation was ongoing, but he was named in a complaint filed by federal prosecutors in Utah as Craig Robertson.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">According to the complaint, Robertson, who was in his early 70s and described himself as a "MAGA Trumper," repeatedly threatened Biden and others in posts on social media.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"I hear Biden is coming to Utah," Robertson said in a post this week. "Cleaning the dust off the M24 sniper rifle.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Welcom (sic), buffoon-in-chief!"</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In addition to Biden, the complaint said Robertson had also made threats against Vice President Kamala Harris and US Attorney General Merrick Garland.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"The time is right for a presidential assassination or two," one post said. "First Joe then Kamala!!!"</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He had also threatened to shoot Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg, who has filed charges against former president Donald Trump for allegedly paying election-eve hush money to a porn star.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The complaint also included pictures from social media postings by Robertson of his extensive collection of guns, including a semi-automatic rifle he called a "Democrat eradicator."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Biden is currently visiting the western United States and is scheduled to fly later Wednesday from Albuquerque, New Mexico, to Salt Lake City.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The US Secret Service, which protects the president, said it is "aware of the FBI investigation involving an individual in Utah who has exhibited threats to a Secret Service protectee" but provided no further details. AFP</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>