(KNOXVILLE, Tenn.) – A rioter convicted on Jan. 6 has now been found guilty of plotting to murder FBI agents who were investigating the Capitol insurrection.

Edward Kelley, 35, was convicted Wednesday in the federal case against him in Knoxville, Tennessee, according to the Justice Department.

He is scheduled to be sentenced May 7 and could face up to life in prison.

Kelley compiled a “victim list” of FBI agents investigating the Jan. 6 riots, the Justice Department said in a news release following the sentencing.

Prosecutors said he plotted to attack the Knoxville FBI office with “car bombs and incendiary devices attached to drones” and to assassinate FBI agents “in their homes and in public places such as cinemas”.

“The safety of our men and women in law enforcement is a primary concern,” U.S. Attorney Francis M. Hamilton III said Wednesday. “There is simply no place in society for those who would engage in this type of reprehensible conduct and threaten to assassinate FBI agents and others who serve honorably in upholding the law, and office will pursue all such threats against public officials working for the public good.”

Earlier this month, Kelley was convicted of multiple charges, including assault on law enforcement, at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

Federal prosecutors in Washington, D.C., said Kelley was identified in photos and videos of the insurrection and was seen in an “altercation” with a U.S. Capitol Police officer “at during which he and two other men knocked the officer to the ground.”

Kelley was seen in the footage pushing against a metal barricade guarded by police to gain access to the Capitol building. He then used a piece of wood to break a window and then entered the building through the window, prosecutors said.

Inside the Capitol, Kelley confronted U.S. Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman and was also seen in the Senate gallery, according to prosecutors.

He is scheduled to be sentenced in federal court in Washington, D.C., on April 7.

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