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Missouri man seen in photo at violent Charlottesville rally kills self on eve of trial on drug charges
KOAMNewsNow.com ^ | February 16, 2023

Posted on 02/16/2023 8:49:24 AM PST by Coronal

A man who was photographed marching in the violent "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017 killed himself last week, according to a coroner's report, just as he was scheduled to face trial on federal drug charges.

Teddy Joseph Von Nukem, 35, lived north of Mountain View, Missouri, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on January 30, according to a report from the Texas County Coroner's Office. That is the same day Von Nukem was scheduled to be in court in Arizona, facing four counts relating to illegal import and sale of fentanyl.

He is a native of Lebanon, Mo. and lived in nearby Springfield for a time.

Von Nukem was seen in two famous photos of the alt-right rally, wearing a black shirt in a large group of men chanting and holding tiki torches. He confirmed his identity to the Springfield News-Leader newspaper a week after the rally after being identified online by a former classmate. He told the newspaper he did not consider himself a White supremacist or neo-Nazi, but would not "counter-signal against them."

Von Nukem failed to show up to court on January 30, with the jury in his drug trial already seated, according to documents from federal court for the District of Arizona. Ten days later, prosecutors filed a motion to dismiss the case "as the defendant is deceased."

He was found dead in a hay shed on his property in Hartshorn, Missouri, having shot himself with a handgun, the coroner's report said. Suicide notes were found at the scene, the coroner said.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: drugs; neverconservative; teddyjosephvonnukem; virginia; vonnukem

1 posted on 02/16/2023 8:49:24 AM PST by Coronal
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To: Coronal
In a related story, some random druggies, small-time criminals, assorted street people, and violent thugs who participated in BLM marches riots were later found dead of overdoses, gang-style executions, drive-by shootings, back-alley brawls, and suicide.

Yawn!

Regards,

2 posted on 02/16/2023 8:53:44 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Coronal

“Teddy Joseph Von Nukem”

Ah, a descendent of the German noble family of Duke Von Nukem, no doubt.


3 posted on 02/16/2023 8:55:17 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: Coronal

Seems like the drug thing is being treated as a “meh” but his political views which go against The Narrative are being treated as a crime against humanity.


4 posted on 02/16/2023 8:55:21 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (“You want it one way, but it’s the other way”)
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To: Coronal

Von Nukem? LOL! At least the fake story writers are learning that it helps to have a sense of humor like the old Pravda fake writers.


5 posted on 02/16/2023 8:55:42 AM PST by gr8eman (Abortion! It's just a murderous ghoul thing!)
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To: Coronal

The son of Duke Nukem?

6 posted on 02/16/2023 8:57:55 AM PST by Round Earther
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To: Boogieman

Any relation to Nukem From Orbit?


7 posted on 02/16/2023 9:00:55 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Coronal
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8 posted on 02/16/2023 9:01:51 AM PST by PGR88 (, )
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To: Blue Jays

"...having shot himself with a handgun..."


Von Nukem did not kill himself.

9 posted on 02/16/2023 9:09:08 AM PST by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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To: Verginius Rufus

“Any relation to Nukem From Orbit?”

Hmm, I just don’t know if there’s any way to be sure...


10 posted on 02/16/2023 9:46:12 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: Blue Jays

Von Nukem did not kill himself.


Do you have grounds for asserting this? I did get the following from the article:

He is survived by his wife and five children, according to an obituary published by a local funeral home.

I wonder if the drug charges were a set up—if you have grounds for your assertion,, that might point in that direction.


11 posted on 02/16/2023 10:17:24 AM PST by Hieronymus
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To: Hieronymus

Nuclear family Nukem nuked himself?


12 posted on 02/16/2023 10:32:10 AM PST by Round Earther
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To: Coronal

“...marching in the violent “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville...”

That rally wasn’t violent until the Mayor and Chief of Police ordered the cops to stand down and allowed Antifa, which had no permit for a rally, to attack the Unite the Right rallies.

It was essentially another setup like the Capitol on January 6th, like the Whitmer Kidnapping Plot, and countless other cases where the FBI, ATF, etc., set people up and then arrest them.


13 posted on 02/16/2023 11:00:27 AM PST by euram (allALL)
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To: alexander_busek

Das ist das, ist es nicht so?


14 posted on 02/16/2023 11:29:07 AM PST by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
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To: Blue Jays

‘’having shot himself with a handgun...’’

Pausing only once to reload.


15 posted on 02/16/2023 11:30:17 AM PST by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
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