![\"Teen](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2ynfwoh034v0ks21.jpg\")
<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
FORT WORTH, Texas – A man charged in several arson incidents in Fort Worth has been linked to threatening social media videos targeting Crowley Middle School.<\/p>\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768350800_778_evan-banda-17-yoa.jpg\")
Additional charges <\/p>\n
What we know:<\/p>\n
17-year-old Evan Banda was arrested on Jan. 8 and charged with multiple counts of arson.<\/p>\n
He is now being charged with more after being linked to an extremist hate organization.<\/p>\n
The Fort Worth Police Department has determined Banda is responsible for several threatening videos that circulated on social media last week.<\/p>\n
In one of the videos, a figure in a hockey mask is seen delivering explicit threats, including threats of mass violence and indiscriminate killing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Footage of Crowley Middle School is seen in another video.<\/p>\n
Fort Worth PD and the Fort Worth Arson Unit determined the threatening videos were linked to multiple arson cases on the south side of Fort Worth.<\/p>\n
This led to Banda\u2019s arrest, and through further investigation revealed Banda acted in support of extremist ideologies.<\/p>\n
Multiple arson incidents <\/p>\n
These new links are on top of the multiple counts of arson, terroristic threat and terrorism charges, and possession of child pornography he’s already been charged with.<\/p>\n
Police say Banda is responsible for five car fires between Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve in 2025.<\/p>\n
The bond for Banda is set at $1.9 million. He is set to be tried as an adult even though he is 17.<\/p>\n
The Source: Information from this article came from Fort Worth police and previous FOX 4 reporting.<\/p>\n
News<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a>Fort Worth<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT WORTH, Texas – A man charged in several arson incidents in Fort Worth has been linked to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1046,116,118,117,223,122,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-122087","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-crime-publicsafety","9":"tag-fort-worth","10":"tag-fort-worth-headlines","11":"tag-fort-worth-news","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-tarrant-county","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}