Illinois State Police have investigated 11 violent threats against Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker since the COVID-19 pandemic began, including an email from a man who vowed to “put a bullet through” the governor’s brain.

That message came from someone in the Collinsville area in southern Illinois. Agents made contact with the author, “who stated they were frustrated and apologetic and advised they will no longer make threatening comments,” the report said.

The governor, who lives in Chicago’s Gold Coast, alluded to some of the threats during a news conference on May 15 in which he was asked about the whereabouts of his family amid reports they were at his home in Wisconsin during the stay-at-home order.

“I’ve been very private and reserved when it comes to my children, and it’s because there are threats to my safety and to their safety,” Pritzker said.

Pritzker has been the target of so many threats over his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic that the Illinois State Police needed a PowerPoint presentation to detail them all.

The most serious of them came from social media, and each was investigated by agents with the Illinois State Police.

The threats led the governor to beef up his security details, from the usual two to occasionally as many as five agents accompanying him to his home and to news conferences.