Woman allegedly emailed Cook photos of loaded pistol.
From “Apple CEO Tim Cook targeted by possibly armed stalker who came to his home and is still in the area, company alleges” posted Tuesday in the San Jose Mercury News:
Apple has been granted a restraining order against a Virginia woman it said has been stalking Apple CEO Tim Cook for more than a year, emailing him photos of a loaded pistol and trespassing at his home, according to court filings…
Cook first learned in late 2020 that he was the subject of the woman’s obsession because he receives alerts when he’s tagged on Twitter, the application said. The woman, using the last name “Cook,” claimed she was the Apple CEO’s wife and he was father to her twins.
She tweeted about the purported relationship a dozen times on Halloween 2020. Between late October and mid-November of that year, she emailed Cook some 200 times, the messages showing “a significant escalation in tone, becoming threatening and highly disturbing,” the application said. A series of missives contained photos of a snub-nosed revolver and cartridges. In an email expressing a desire for a sexual relationship with Cook, she said her patience was “almost done,” the application said.
The application names the subject of the restraining order as a 45-year-old woman from Virginia.
My take: Don’t get me started on guns, mental health and the unfiltered Twitter.
The fact that Tim Cook is and has been openly gay his entire life apparently doesn’t matter to this woman, much less social media.
THIS BEGS THE QUESTION:
If a ‘possibly armed’ stalker has been harassing Cook since 2020, why hasn’t she been identified, much less arrested?
I mean, Cook’s got enough dough to hire half the retired FBI agents out there. Just saying’.
Unless it’s just a prank that’s gone off the rails?
“Between October and mid-November 2020, the woman allegedly sent Cook nearly 200 emails that “showed a significant escalation in tone, becoming threatening and highly disturbing,” the filing said. In October 2021, she was detained by local police after trespassing on his private property, where she allegedly told law enforcement she “could be violent.”
The filing also claims the woman attempted to open fraudulent businesses under Cook’s name. Last month, she allegedly demanded $500 million from Cook to “forget and forgive.”
In the filing, Apple said it believes the woman may still be armed in the South Bay area of San Francisco and “intends to return to the Apple’s CEO’s residence or locate him otherwise in the future.”