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The brazen nutjob accused of storming the \u201cToday\u201d show set appeared to be in the background of the show just minutes before allegedly sneaking into the studio and demanding to see anchor Al Roker and hurling a racial slur at anchor Craig Melvin, according to a video.<\/p>\n

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Andrew Truelove, 41, is accused of slipping past 30 Rock security and entering an unauthorized area near Studio 1A on Thursday around 9 a.m. \u2014 allegedly shouting \u201cWhere is Roker?\u201d before calling Melvin the N-word.<\/p>\n

Video from the \u201cnews at 8\u201d segment of Thursday\u2019s four-hour show captured what appeared to be Truelove while Melvin and Savannah Guthrie reported on a great white shark headed for Cape Cod.<\/p>\n

Someone resembling Truelove is seen over the right shoulder of Guthrie through the window of the set of \u201cToday\u201d \u2014 with a police officer over Melvin\u2019s left shoulder.<\/p>\n

The man paces and puffs from a vape while wearing the same sopped-with-sweat, drab colored collared shirt and gray shorts that Truelove wore while being arrested, photos show.<\/p>\n

Truelove allegedly followed a staffer who used their ID badge to get into an \u201cemployee\u2019s only area,\u201d according to Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Millicent Kastenbaum.<\/p>\n

He was held on $10,000 bail by Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Jeffrey Gershuny who issued an order of protection barring the maniac from the vicinity of the \u201cToday\u201d anchors.<\/p>\n

Guthrie fled New York after the jarring incident, with the host spotted at LaGuardia Airport on Friday while trying to keep a low profile.<\/p>\n

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Guthrie had returned on April 6 from a two-month leave of absence after her mother Nancy went missing in February.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, NBC News fired a security guard who allegedly let the intruder slip into the studio.<\/p>\n

Truelove has at least eight prior arrests in New York City dating back to July 2025, mostly for criminal mischief, according to police and law enforcement sources.<\/p>\n

His criminal history outside of New York includes a 2012 arrest in Virginia for stealing signs from playgrounds that honored the victims of the Sandy Hook mass shooting, sources confirmed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Truelove was previously sentenced to four years in prison for abduction when he went to a Virginia high school with a lug wrench in 2007 and grabbed an 8-year-old girl by the straps of her backpack,\u00a0the Virginian-Pilot reported at the time.<\/p>\n

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