Overview:
• The post was made, and a message was sent, on Wednesday morning
• Murillo wrote, "who knows I might have another mug shot to add to my collection if you think you could walk these streets without consequences"
• ‘I pretty much see it as a threat,” Greene said
Revision Oct. 9, 2025, adds an image of the Facebook post.
Fayetteville City Council Member Lynne Greene is considering whether to file a complaint with the police that her former opponent in this year’s municipal election, Enrique “Ranger Rick” Murillo, levied a threat against her on Wednesday morning.
The alleged threat was in a Facebook post, which Greene said Murillo copied to her via a Facebook direct message.
Murillo, who dropped out of the election in August amid intense scrutiny and criticism of his past, contends that he did not threaten Greene.
Regardless, Facebook removed his post by early afternoon, Murillo told CityView, after someone reported it.
His post said in part, “who knows I might have another mug shot to add to my collection if you think you could walk these streets without consequences.” When Murillo was still in the election, his opponents created collages of Murillo’s police mugshots from when he was arrested over the years.
“I pretty much see it as a threat,” Greene told CityView. I don’t know how to interpret it any other way.”
Murillo interprets his words differently.
“You know, the way that society works, and the way they are, anything that a brown person or a man of color says to them, they take it as a threat, because of where we are,” he said. Murillo told CityView he is a man of color. In his voter registration, Murillo is listed as being Hispanic or Latino and of two or more races. Green is white.
“No, that’s not a threat. It’s not a physical threat. It’s not any of that,” Murillo said.
Murillo is an Army Special Forces veteran who is known for his activism to reduce suicide among soldiers and vets, such as his recent 10th annual Man 22 Suicide Awareness Run. He acknowledges he had numerous entanglements with the criminal justice system in his past, and says he now has moved on from those days.
Murillo filed in July to run against Greene in this year’s city council District 5 election. He dropped out after his eligibility to run was challenged on the premise that he lied on his candidacy paperwork about whether he has a felony conviction on his record. South Carolina records say Murillo pleaded guilty in 2012 to a felony assault charge. Murillo has argued that the records are mistaken, and that he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor assault charge.
The primary for November’s municipal elections was Tuesday.
At 7:28 a.m. Wednesday, Murillo posted a note to his Facebook page about the results. He congratulated the winners and offered “good luck” wishes to Mayor Mitch Colvin and City Council Member Kathy Keefe Jensen, who won the mayoral primary.
Then he addressed the District 5 election, which did not have a primary. Murillo had been Greene’s only opponent, and with his withdrawal from the race, she is poised to win the general election.
“I chose not to stay in for my bigger picture,” Murillo wrote. “Politics is dirty and Lyn green and her dog Melane that Rachet are an example of that.” Melene Hatcher is a friend of Greene’s who filed the challenge to Murillo’s candidacy with the Board of Elections that led to the investigation of his criminal record.
Murillo told Greene to “enjoy that seat and remember I gave it to you.”
He continued with, “F— you and your cronies that do real estate in the city council. I’m coming for it..what you gonna do bring up old s— ..who knows I might have another mug shot to add to my collection if you think you could walk these streets without consequences. County commissioner sounds good too.”
Facebook showed that Murillo edited and republished the post several times over the next 40 minutes. In the later versions, he said, he added criticism of his detractors who attended a county Board of Elections meeting where his eligibility to remain on the ballot was reviewed. The elections board ruled in Murillo’s favor, but he later chose to withdraw.
Greene said she is seeking advice from Fayetteville’s city attorney as to how to proceed.
She said that while she felt threatened, she does not know if Murillo’s words fit the legal definition for communicating a threat.
“The words were threatening in their own right,” she said. “And the fact that he sent it directly to me—did not post it on my public page—but sent it directly to my inbox, to me, takes it to a little bit different level.”
Senior reporter Paul Woolverton can be reached at pwoolverton@cityviewnc.com.
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