An executive assistant attorney with the Middle District of Tennessee U.S. Attorney’s Office confirmed to The Tennessee Star that McKenzie McClure, the biological female and former Christ Presbyterian Academy (CPA) student arrested by federal authorities on cyberstalking charges, will remain in custody leading up to a June 3 detention hearing.
In a media request, The Star posed the following five questions to the Attorney’s Office regarding McClure’s arrest on April 29:
1. Can you confirm that McKenzie McClure is currently in federal custody?
2. Has bail been set, and if so in what amount?
3. Where is Ms. McClure being held in custody?
4. Is she in a local jail or a federal incarceration center?
5. Is she in a male facility or a female facility?
On Monday, Executive Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark H. Wildasin (pictured above) provided the following statement in response to The Star’s inquiry:
McClure is in federal custody until at least June 3, at which time the court will resume the detention hearing. As McClure is in custody, no terms of release have been set. If the Court denies our motion for detention after the June 3 hearing, the Court will enter an order setting the conditions. For security reasons in every case, we do not provide information on where a pre-trial detainee is being held.
McClure (pictured here), who identifies as a transgender man and prefers the name “Kalvin,” was arrested on cyberstalking charges after making a public threat against Governor Bill Lee and leaving a concerning voicemail to CPA in March, which caused two schools to shut down the following day.
The threatening voicemail was left days before the anniversary of the Covenant School shooting, which saw a former Covenant student who identified as transgender – 28-year old Audrey Elizabeth Hale – enter the school and murder six people before being killed by MNPD officers.
Unlike the Covenant School killer, no information has indicated that McClure possesses firearms or is trained in the use of firearms; however, McClure does have a criminal history, which involves dismissed domestic assault charges.
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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Follow Kaitlin on X / Twitter.
Image “U.S. Attorney Mark H. Wildasin” by DOJ/C-SPAN; “McKenzie McClure” by McKenzie “Kalvin Amadeus Mikoledes” McClure.
