'Heartsick': Woman dies in crash with bomb squad unit responding to threat on MTG's home

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) says a woman in Georgia was killed on Monday in a car accident involving a police officer who was responding to a bomb threat at her home.

The Rome Police Department bomb squad responded to Greene’s home following a threat that her office later said in a statement was “traced to a Russian IP address.” The crash was confirmed by police, who said the officer was not critically injured, according to Atlanta news station WXIA-TV.

There was determined to be no “active threat” against the MAGA lawmaker, who her office said has been “swatted” at least nine times. But hours later, Greene posted on social media that a fatal crash occurred.

“My prayers are with Tammie Pickelsimer, her family, the officer who was injured, and the entire Rome Police Department,” Greene wrote to her followers on X. “These violent political threats have fatal consequences. It’s an undue strain on our law enforcement who must treat them seriously.”

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She added that the officer was responding to the bomb threat to “protect my life” and went as far as to call the crash “murder.”

“And now, a woman has lost her life because of this despicable act," she wrote. "The perpetrator of this crime has committed murder in our small community of Rome, Georgia. The police shouldn’t have to respond to these threats and there should not be deaths caused at their hands. I’m so thankful for everything the Rome Police Department does to protect our city and for putting their lives on the line to do it. I’m sick to my stomach, but I’m also angry.”

Greene’s office said it was working with local and federal law enforcement, including the FBI, “to ensure the perpetrator is brought to justice,” and noted the “international nature and severity of this threat.”

“This should have never happened and I pray it never happens again,” she said in her post.