An employee of a New Rochelle restaurant and sports bar did not want to go to work on Saturday so she sent seemingly random Google Voice text messages to as far away as Texas threatening to shoot up the New Rochelle location of a national chain located at a popular entertainment destination.
The person, a woman living in an apartment on Boynton Avenue in the Bronx was recently hired by the Buffalo Wild Wings location in New Rochelle, NY. She gave her Boynton Avenue Apartment as her place of residence when applying for a position at Buffalo Wild Wings. She called out sick on April 15, 2023 and allegedly made a series of text messages threats the following evening.
Police narrative: On April 15, 2023, the NRPD received a call from an individual who had received an initial text message from an unknown person threatening to “shoot up” Buffalo Wild Wings located on LeCount Place in New Rochelle
The text message further stated that there would be a “massacre” and “lots of people are going down.” A subsequent text message stated that “todays a busy night because of the game DON’T TAKE ME AS A JOKE lots of people will die DON’T CALL THE STORE AND RUIN MY PLANS I’m gonna make the news.”
That same day, the NRPD received a call from a second individual who had received an identical text message from an unknown person threatening to “shooting up” Buffalo Wild Wings and commit a “massacre,” stating, “lots of people are going down.”
The NRPD took the phone number from which the text-message threats were sent and traced the number back a woman in the Bronx. On the evening of April 15, 2023, pursuant to a search warrant, the FBI and New Rochelle Police searched the woman’s apartment and found both the woman and the cellphone from which the woman sent the threats. After informing the woman of her Miranda rights, she consented to being interviewed and admitted that she had sent text messages threatening to shoot up Buffalo Wild Wings to five individuals.
Jayleen J. Mota was arrested on April 16, 2023.
The charge carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison.