{"id":21236,"date":"2025-10-24T11:40:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T11:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/21236\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T11:40:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T11:40:32","slug":"fbi-arrests-sacramento-man-freed-on-bail-after-allegedly-shooting-at-abc-affiliate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/21236\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI arrests Sacramento man freed on bail after allegedly shooting at ABC affiliate"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Sacramento man was freed on bail after allegedly shooting<\/a> into ABC10\u2019s lobby \u2014 only to be quickly picked up by the FBI, according to authorities.<\/p>\n

The FBI took Anibal Hernandez Santana, 64, into custody Saturday on charges that he interfered with government-licensed broadcast communications<\/a>, officials said.<\/p>\n

The raving anti-Trumper is on a federal hold and ineligible for release. An FBI representative confirmed Hernandez Santana\u2019s arrest in response to an inquiry from The Post.<\/p>\n

A man walks past ABC10\u2019s damaged lobby window on Friday \u2014 a day after the gunfire rattled the station. REUTERS<\/p>\n

Hernandez Santana is set to appear in federal court in Sacramento on Monday at 2 p.m. local time, with a separate state court appearance Tuesday at 3 p.m., according to the FBI and county jail records.<\/a><\/p>\n

Police say the drive-by attack hit ABC10\u2019s headquarters at 400 Broadway<\/a> just after 1:30 p.m. Friday, striking the lobby window three times while the building was occupied. No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n

Cops haven\u2019t given a motive, but Hernandez Santana\u2019s social media accounts are filled with anti-Trump screeds, including \u201cRules don\u2019t apply if election was stolen. FIGHT!\u201d<\/p>\n

Investigators said they identified a vehicle linked to the shooting<\/a> and moved Friday evening to arrest Hernandez Santana at an address in the River Park neighborhood.<\/p>\n

He was first booked into the Sacramento County Main Jail around midnight on state counts of assault with a deadly weapon, shooting into an occupied building and negligent discharge of a firearm.<\/p>\n

Bullet holes are seen in the lobby window of ABC10\u2019s Sacramento headquarters after Friday\u2019s drive-by shooting. kcra<\/p>\n

Bail was set at $200,000. He posted bond Saturday before the FBI rearrested him.<\/p>\n

Local news broadcasts from the apartment complex showed a heavy police presence, including a SWAT team.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe made eye contact,\u201d a tenant named Angela told KCRA-TV, adding she heard officers order, \u201cGet down on the ground or we\u2019re going to shoot.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the latest on Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s suspension after Charlie Kirk comments<\/p>\n

Neighbor Destini Rich said she parked beside the suspect regularly.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m always seeing him, like, coming and going,\u201d Rich said.<\/p>\n

Another tenant, Emily Alves, said, \u201cHe was a nice guy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cBut then after hearing all this, we were we\u2019re just like, \u2018What? What happened?\u201d<\/p>\n

Police said a motive remains under investigation and declined to say whether a weapon had been recovered. The department thanked the FBI for providing resources.<\/p>\n

Tegna, which owns ABC10, said all staff were safe and that the company had increased security.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can confirm that shots were fired into our station at KXTV earlier today. While details are still limited, importantly all of our employees are safe and unharmed. We are fully cooperating with law enforcement and have taken additional measures to ensure the continued safety of our employees,\u201d Tegna said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The FBI arrested Anibal Hernandez Santana, 64, hours after his release on bail and placed him on a federal hold. Bumble Dee \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n

Gov. Gavin Newsom condemned the attack.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile no injuries have been reported, any act of violence toward journalists is an attack on our democracy itself and must be condemned in the strongest terms,\u201d his office posted on X.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe stand with reporters and staff who work every day to keep communities informed and safe!\u201d<\/p>\n

The shooting followed protests outside ABC10 on Thursday over ABC\u2019s suspension of \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live!\u201d Police said no demonstrations were underway at the time of the attack but were examining any possible link.<\/p>\n

ABC confirmed this week it had indefinitely pre-empted the long-running late-night program.<\/p>\n

Disney executives pulled \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live!\u201d off the schedule \u201cindefinitely\u201d after remarks the host made earlier in the week about conservative activist Charlie Kirk\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

Industry outlets said the decision came amid pressure on affiliates and corporate blowback, with Disney\u2019s ABC removing the show and sparking demonstrations in Los Angeles and New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Sacramento man was freed on bail after allegedly shooting into ABC10\u2019s lobby \u2014 only to be quickly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[3587,1055,17285,3589,3590,121,123,122,3586],"class_list":["post-21236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-abc","tag-fbi","tag-fbi-investigations","tag-jimmy-kimmel","tag-jimmy-kimmel-live","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}