An nameless homophobe despatched a vicious anti-gay electronic mail to the spouse of WNBA famous person Breanna Stewart, and it’s apparently not the primary time, The Submit has discovered.
Stewart’s spouse, former professional basketball participant Marta Xargay Casademont, walked into the NYPD’s 78th Precinct in Brooklyn on Thursday to report the heinous electronic mail, which mentioned, “I hope somebody shoots your spouse lifeless, f–ok you d—es [sic], I hope you each die,” amongst different issues, police sources mentioned.
Sources added {that a} memo by NBA safety mentioned the e-mail was despatched from an Web tackle that has been related to different hateful missives, together with dying threats, bomb threats and extra racist rhetoric.
A rep for Stewart’s group, the New York Liberty, didn’t reply to a Submit request for remark.
Casademont — a 33-year-old retired participant who was born in Spain and received the silver medal with the Spanish nationwide group on the 2016 Summer season Olympics — married Stewart in July 2021.
The couple has two youngsters.
The Liberty are presently within the WNBA Finals, the place they’re taking part in the Minnesota Lynx.
The sequence is tied at one sport apiece.
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