{"id":247929,"date":"2026-04-13T18:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T18:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/247929\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T18:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T18:46:09","slug":"fbi-raids-spring-texas-home-tied-to-suspect-in-openai-ceo-molotov-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/247929\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI raids Spring, Texas, home tied to suspect in OpenAI CEO Molotov attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

SPRING, Texas \u2014 On Monday, the FBI raided a Spring, Texas, home linked to a 20-year-old suspect accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail<\/a> at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s San Francisco residence, according to CBS News.<\/a><\/p>\n

The suspect, identified as Daniel Moreno-Gama, 20, is accused of traveling from Spring to San Francisco to carry out the attack, which occurred early Friday morning at Altman’s home, CBS News reports. An exterior gate caught fire, but no one was hurt, police said.<\/p>\n

The Department of Justice is expected to file federal charges including attempted damage and destruction of property by means of explosives and possession of an unregistered firearm, CBS News reported. No federal charges had been filed as of Monday morning as investigators continued to process the scene and work to establish a motive, according to KTRK<\/a>.<\/p>\n

PREVIOUS COVERAGE | Man arrested for throwing Molotov cocktail at OpenAI’s Sam Altman’s home<\/a><\/p>\n

San Francisco police said officers responded around 4:12 a.m. to reports of a fire at Altman’s home. The suspect fled on foot but was later identified after allegedly approaching OpenAI’s headquarters at the 1400 block of 3rd Street and threatening to burn down the building<\/a>. He was arrested shortly after 5 a.m.<\/p>\n

OpenAI confirmed in a statement that the targeted home belongs to Altman and said the company is cooperating with investigators. <\/p>\n

The Montgomery County Constable confirmed the Spring property is connected to the suspect, KTRK reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPRING, Texas \u2014 On Monday, the FBI raided a Spring, Texas, home linked to a 20-year-old suspect accused…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-247929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247929","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=247929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}