Threats Against Ryan Nichols: The Treece Messages and the Church Gun Story

I am documenting one specific pattern in East Texas.

This did not start with me looking for a fight.

It started with a public comment about my family on an old Facebook post. I took it private. I added the people involved to one Messenger thread. I asked for the comment to come down. I gave them a way to end it without me publishing anything else.

Then the messages changed from argument to physical intimidation.

This is not random internet noise from anonymous accounts. These are local people. The thread involves accounts displayed to me as Trey Treece and Jessica Treece. The church-parking-lot video and comments matter because that separate false-gun narrative is the same kind of East Texas rumor machine that keeps turning me into the aggressor while people say things to me that no one would tolerate if I said them back.

That is the article.

Treece threats. The church gun story. The East Texas pattern.

Nothing more.

The receipt

The first source is a Google Drive evidence folder containing screenshots from Facebook. The key screenshot shows a comment by Trey Treece on my Facebook post dated August 20, 2025. The screenshot shows the comment as recent at the time it was captured, but the screenshot does not prove the exact absolute time the comment was posted.

Profile photos were cropped out of the public screenshot.

The second source is a Facebook Messenger group thread displayed as "Jessica, Trey, Amanda" in my account. The thread includes me, Amanda, and accounts displayed by Messenger as Trey Treece and Jessica Treece.

I preserved the Messenger thread on May 31, 2026. I also preserved a local evidence snapshot of the thread, including timestamps, hidden-message reveals, and the visible Messenger screen.

Private phone information is redacted from the Messenger screenshot.

The third source is a May 31, 2026 evidence folder I preserved from Google Drive. That folder includes screenshots of the Harrison County Sheriff's Office press release, local news posts, public comments, Messenger/profile screenshots, and videos screen-recorded from what people posted publicly. I OCR-scanned the screenshots and transcribed the videos before adding this section.

The direct video receipts now show the false-gun narrative in the couple's own posted words. The longer video shows the wife speaking from inside a vehicle. Her husband is seated beside her and speaks on camera. A shorter edited version with captions is included below in this article.

What happened first

The public Facebook screenshot is what started it.

The comment on my August 20, 2025 post said, in part:

"bring my family in this"

It also said:

"if u loved your wife and kids then u would have never left..."

Then it escalated:

"I will make u wish u never started accusing people..."

And it ended with:

"id love to square up with u..."

That is the public comment I wanted removed.

On March 21, 2026, I opened the private group thread with a direct message asking for the public comment thread to be removed.

I wrote that I appreciated the apology sent to Amanda. I said I wanted to give them another chance to take down the public comments. I explained why I believed the comment crossed a line: it reached into Amanda and our unborn child instead of staying on me.

That matters because the public story now being told is backwards.

I did not start by publishing everything I had.

I started by asking privately for the comment to come down.

What the messages show

The Messenger thread shows Trey replying at 8:32 PM that he would delete the post if I sent him the video first.

I told him it was not a negotiation.

Minutes later, the messages escalated.

At 8:40 PM, the thread shows Trey writing:

"all I wanted to do was fight u so fight me I'll delete them"

At 8:42 PM, the thread shows him writing:

"U meet me and fight me one on one and I will delete..."

At 9:02 PM, the thread shows a longer message that ends this way:

"don't think i won't see u and when I do God be with u is all I can say because u can't get out of this its me and u"

At 9:11 PM, the thread shows another message saying, with a private phone number redacted:

"if u have any balls [phone redacted] i don't text im not a key board warrior..."

That same 9:11 PM message continues:

"I promise u won't win shit if u did id give u 500 because I love to beat the shit out of bullies like u and keep my kids out your mouth only warning"

That is the receipt.

Not a rumor. Not a thirdhand summary. Not me guessing what someone meant.

Those are the words preserved from the Messenger thread.

The next round

The thread also shows a later exchange after the original comments had been taken down.

At 12:02 AM, the thread shows Trey writing that if I brought his kids into adult business, I would "need more than that pistol" and then telling me to meet him "anywhere 1 on1."

At 12:15 AM, I wrote:

"On the phone with 911 now"

At 12:16 AM, Trey replied:

"I don't give a fuck make sure and tell em the truth"

At 12:17 AM, the thread shows a Messenger-visible transcript/readout from Trey saying, in part, that he was not scared of the law and that I was wrong for threatening his children.

At 12:05 AM, the thread shows Jessica writing that she was calling Harrison County to report me.

I am not going to pretend the thread is one-sided. The thread includes hard words from me too. I told them I had an article ready. I told them I would publish if they kept coming at me. I told them I would call police. That is all in the record.

But there is a difference between telling someone you will publish receipts and telling someone to meet one-on-one, saying you love to beat people, saying "only warning," and saying "when I do God be with u."

How the church gun story fed it

There is another piece of this pattern that has to be said plainly.

People in East Texas keep repeating a story that I pulled a gun and pointed it around.

I deny that. That did not happen.

I have asked for the Harrison County bodycam footage because the footage should settle it. If there is bodycam showing me pulling a gun and pointing it around, release it. If there is bodycam showing that I did not do that, release it.

That is why the bodycam matters.

I have asked Harrison County for that footage in writing. On May 18, 2026, Lt. Cindy Black of the Harrison County Sheriff's Office Civil/Open Records office replied that the case is "still active" and that the call sheet "is all I am able to release at this time."

I wrote back that the body cam is exactly what would settle the gun claim, that body cams get released all the time, and that I did not appreciate my case being obstructed.

On May 19, 2026, I sent a second written request — with my attorney copied — again asking for the police report and the body cam.

As of now, the body cam has not been released.

The Harrison County Sheriff's Office press release used one set of words. It said the allegation was that I "raised his shirt up to display a firearm and placed his hand upon grip of the firearm."

Local media then amplified the story. KLTV/KWTX reported that Harrison County Sheriff B.J. Fletcher said I placed my hand on the grip and quoted him saying, "He gripped it completely." Law&Crime later framed the allegation as a churchgoer being threatened with a gun.

Then the public version escalated even more.

In the couple's video, the wife says I "was going to pull a gun" on her husband. In the same video, she says I "reached for his gun" and says he had his back turned.

Her husband then speaks on camera. He says:

"I guess he was worried about the words of Jesus getting smacked him in his face."

He also says:

"Know your backstop."

And he describes "the car that he's pointed at."

That is now attached.

Another short video shows my mother recording my interaction with the officer from a distance while the wife films that scene and narrates against me. That matters because I still do not have the bodycam. When law enforcement will not release the official footage, a family member recording the police interaction is not suspicious. It is exactly how people protect the record.

I deny that I pulled a gun. I deny that I pointed a gun at a vehicle. I deny that I threatened them with a gun.

The video matters because it shows the public story changing from the official allegation into a much more dangerous version: "pull a gun," "pointed at," "backstop." That escalation — from "raised his shirt" and "hand upon grip" to "pointed at" and "backstop" — is the whole reason I am asking for the bodycam to be released.

The later comment screenshots matter too.

One screenshot shows a public comment under the wife's name saying:

"He was trying to convince the cops that he was scared of [the husband] because [the husband] had something in his hand. [the husband] had his Bible in his hand."

That same comment says:

"[the husband] had his back to him the whole time so that he couldn't say [the husband] was being confrontational."

Another screenshot shows a public comment under the same wife's name saying:

"[the husband] was to the point of getting violent. I was making sure that didn't happen."

Directly below that, another commenter says:

"someone needs to kick his ass..."

and ties that statement to "knowing he had a gun."

Those are not my words. Those are the receipts I was sent and preserved.

A public Facebook post by Brandon Stewart said there were "No witness statements" and then claimed a social media video had the same alleged victim saying I "pulled out the gun and pointed it at the vehicle with his kids inside."

That is the difference I am talking about.

The official allegation is bad enough. But when people turn "raised his shirt" and "hand upon grip" into "pulled out the gun and pointed it at the vehicle with his kids inside," they are not just repeating a charge. They are changing the image in the public's mind.

That changed image is dangerous.

In the same evidence folder, a public comment by Vince Simmons responded to the gun narrative by saying:

"Do that where I'm from, they'll just find pieces of you."

Another screenshot shows a public comment by George Ives saying:

"I'll beat yo ass till you fuck around and find out..."

That same comment included a street address, which I am redacting here.

That is why I am preserving the distinction.

Now the exact video receipt is attached. No one has to take my word for that part. They can watch what was posted, compare it to the official wording, and understand why I am demanding the bodycam instead of letting rumor decide the record.

False gun stories are not harmless gossip.

A false gun story tells strangers I am armed and dangerous. It gives angry people a fake excuse to treat me like a threat. It makes every public threat more dangerous because it paints a target around me and then tells the community I deserve what happens next.

That is what this feels like from my side: a narrative being built around me that puts me in danger while the people with the footage refuse to clear the record.

I am not saying a court has found that. I am saying the record needs to be released before the lie gets somebody hurt.

What it does not prove yet

This article does not prove a court has ruled on these messages.

It does not prove every message in the thread is a criminal threat.

It does not prove what every voice memo says. Some audio messages are visible in the thread and still need independent transcription before I quote them publicly.

It does not prove what happened outside the thread or outside the church-parking-lot videos.

It does not prove a court has ruled that the couple's statements are false or malicious.

It does not prove what the couple told deputies beyond what is visible in the public video, what appears in the Harrison County press release, and what later reporting attributed to law enforcement.

It does not prove the public Facebook comment screenshots are complete threads. They are preserved as screenshots and cropped for public safety, with private address information redacted.

It proves something narrower: after I asked privately for a public comment to come down, the Messenger thread preserved multiple messages that I understood as physical threats and intimidation. It also shows how the separate church gun story fed the same East Texas pattern and why I am demanding the bodycam and the public record instead of letting local rumor decide what happened.

Why it matters

This matters because the same pattern keeps repeating.

Someone takes a public shot at me or my family. I answer. Then the story gets rewritten so I am the only aggressor and everyone else is just an innocent bystander.

The record does not support that.

The record shows I gave a private off-ramp. The record shows the comments came down. The record also shows the physical-threat language that followed.

The record also shows why I do not trust private whispers, deleted comments, or Harrison County rumor control. When the Treece thread, the church gun narrative, and withheld bodycam all touch the same story, the answer is not silence.

The answer is receipts.

That is why I own the domain.

That is why I preserve the receipts.

That is why I am not letting social media comments, hidden messages, deleted threads, or private intimidation decide what the public record says.

The other side's own messages are part of this record too. They say they "planned to get in our vehicle and just leave" — and I am the one who made the first call to 911.

What I need next

If you have screenshots, links, messages, or recordings tied to this sequence, send them in.

Do not threaten anyone. Do not harass anyone. Do not contact people in my name.

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— Ryan