Orland Park man charged in Will County with hate crime against woman, allegedly threatened to kill her
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An Orland Park man has been charged with committing a hate crime against a woman in Tinley Park by allegedly calling her a terrorist and threatening to throw a grenade at her.On Wednesday, Collin M. McEnery, 33, was charged in Will County with felony hate crime and misdemeanor harassment through electronic communication for a July 7 incident in Tinley Park, court records show.Tinley Park Police Department investigated the case.A criminal complaint alleged McEnery left a voicemail to a woman in which he allegedly referred to her as a terrorist, used a racial slur against people of Middle Eastern descent, and threatened to kill the woman.The charges alleged McEnery made “discriminatory comments about her race and telling her he was going to kill her by throwing a frag grenade at her.”A “frag” grenade is short for fragmentation grenade, which is a type of grenade used by the U.S. military and designed to burst into numerous small, lethal fragments upon explosion. The charges also allege t