SEATTLE (MCT) — The father of a Washington state man charged with threatening to kill President Barack Obama and assaulting a federal agent and a police officer with a loaded shotgun said his son was “stressed out” over the economy and his inability to find work despite having a master’s degree and spending nearly five years in the Navy.

“I think he blamed the president for it,” said Cecil Bryson, whose 31-year-old son, Anton Caluori, of Federal Way, was charged Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Seattle.