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An Indiana man has been busted for allegedly threatening to “gut” Elon Musk and parade his “corpse through the streets.”

David Allen June Cherry, 28, sent at least five threatening posts on X in response to Musk, leading to the Tesla CEO contacting police in Texas earlier this month, Indiana State Police reported in a statement on Facebook.

The posts were sent from the account @effective_pawn, connected to a business owned by Cherry, and which has since been suspended by X.

“We’re gunning you down, Muskrat,” Cherry allegedly wrote on X on December 6, in response to a post from Musk commenting on the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson two days earlier.

“I’ve got enough bullets for his b—- a– and all the rest of you manchildren,” he is reported to have written in another post dated January 22, responding to a post by controversial influencer Andrew Tate about Musk.

On February 3, he reportedly sent two threatening posts to Musk, one reading, “You’ve broken the law. You’re on the hit list.”

“You’re robbing the American people. We will gut you and parade your corpse through the streets,” he wrote in a second post.

“I’m going to plant a bomb in Elon Musk’s house,” he wrote in the final post, dated February 16, two days before police in Texas contacted their Indiana counterparts.

After receiving the posts, state troopers obtained a search warrant to “ping” Cherry’s phone and showed he was close to the town of Clarksville, on the border with Kentucky, reported Law & Crime.

Under questioning, Cherry confirmed that he had posted under the account in question, according to a signed affidavit from February 18.

Cherry said he made the posts to be “edgy,” and that he had never intended to do Musk any harm.

He pleaded not guilty to one count of level five intimidation and was released from jail after posting a $2,500 bond, reported WAVE.

Supporters of Cherry say he is a “hard-working family man [who] was arrested on bogus allegations on the morning of February 18, according to a GoFundMe set up to raise money for his defense fees.

The GoFundMe features a grab of a Facebook post reportedly made by Cherry on February 5.

“This man needs to be shot,” Cherry wrote, under a screengrab of an X post by Elon Musk.

The GoFundMe says that this is the reason for Cherry’s arrest, but does not mention any of the X posts which feature in the affidavit.

Cherry’s attorney said he plans to fight the charges using the First Amendment.

“What they say he did is just made some statements, so whenever that’s the case, that’s the whole criminal charge the First Amendment is always the most important,” Defense Attorney Bart Betteau told WAVE.

But the prosecution says Cherry’s alleged threats crossed the line.

“You have no greater right to possess surface-to-air missiles under the Second Amendment than you do to make true threats under the First, so every constitutional guarantee, and we take an oath to uphold those, they all have certain limitations,” Harrison County Prosecutor Otto Schalk told WAVE.

Cherry’s trial has been set for August. If found guilty, he faces up to six years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

Elon Musk has spoken out in the past about death threats against him.

On Wednesday, he told Trump’s Cabinet that he receives “a lot of death threats,” over his work at DOGE.

“I’m taking a lot of flak and getting a lot of death threats, by the way. I can like, stack them up. But if we don’t do this, America will go bankrupt. That’s why it has to be done,” he said as he addressed the president and his Cabinet secretaries.

On Wednesday, a New York producer who called for Musk’s assassination was probed by the feds after a video she posted on TikTok about the owner of X went viral.