{"id":266016,"date":"2026-04-25T16:07:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T16:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/266016\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T16:07:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T16:07:23","slug":"18-year-old-accused-of-plotting-mass-casualty-synagogue-attack-in-texas-fbi-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/266016\/","title":{"rendered":"18-year-old accused of plotting mass-casualty synagogue attack in Texas, FBI says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LEXINGTON, N.C. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbtv.com\/2026\/04\/24\/north-carolina-teen-planned-mass-casualty-synagogue-attack-texas-fbi-charlotte-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wbtv.com\/2026\/04\/24\/north-carolina-teen-planned-mass-casualty-synagogue-attack-texas-fbi-charlotte-says\/\">WBTV<\/a>\/Gray News) &#8211; A North Carolina teen is accused of planning a mass-casualty attack at a synagogue in Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DavidsonCoSheriffsOffice\/posts\/pfbid0vCBEFLMKCD8Md5Ww2xeapZAT2VxPfUZMbVzXXUychgNqbtVnXvKc4z7oRMaJFME3l?rdid=58Kwaf47j1JEQMwv#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DavidsonCoSheriffsOffice\/posts\/pfbid0vCBEFLMKCD8Md5Ww2xeapZAT2VxPfUZMbVzXXUychgNqbtVnXvKc4z7oRMaJFME3l?rdid=58Kwaf47j1JEQMwv#\">Davidson County Sheriff\u2019s Office<\/a>, Angelina Hicks, 18, was arrested Wednesday on charges that include felony conspiracy to commit assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill and felony conspiracy to commit murder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">She is currently being held on a $10 million bond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FBICharlotte\/status\/2047385012278829223\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FBICharlotte\/status\/2047385012278829223\">FBI\u2019s Charlotte field office<\/a> said it opened an investigation after it received a tip that Hicks was planning to target the Jewish community for a potential act of violence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Authorities went to Hicks\u2019 home in Lexington and found evidence that she and co-conspirators were planning a \u201cmass-casualty event\u201d at Congregation Beth Israel in Houston, officials said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A second, unnamed minor in Harris County, Texas, was also charged in connection with the alleged plan. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Authorities added that other suspected co-conspirators have been identified and the FBI investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WBTV via Gray Local Media, Inc. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEXINGTON, N.C. (WBTV\/Gray News) &#8211; A North Carolina teen is accused of planning a mass-casualty attack at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99457,99458,99465,99461,99462,99456,99466,99464,99463,99459,99460,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-266016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-angelina-hicks","tag-angelina-hicks-synagogue-attack","tag-angelina-hicks-synagogue-attack-arrest","tag-congregation-beth-israel","tag-congregation-beth-israel-planned-attack","tag-davidson-county-sheriffs-office","tag-fbi-charlotte","tag-planned-mass-casualty-synagogue-attack","tag-planned-mass-casualty-texas-synagogue-attack","tag-synagogue-attack","tag-synagogue-attack-houston","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266016","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=266016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}