{"id":7749,"date":"2025-10-17T03:13:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T03:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/7749\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T03:13:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T03:13:06","slug":"2-arrested-in-texas-immigration-detention-center-shooting-now-face-terrorism-related-charges-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/7749\/","title":{"rendered":"2 arrested in Texas immigration detention center shooting now face terrorism-related charges"},"content":{"rendered":"

DALLAS \u2013 Two people arrested in a July shooting<\/a> outside an immigration detention center in Texas are facing new charges that follow President Donald Trump\u2019s order last month to designate a decentralized movement known as antifa as a domestic terrorist organization<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Autumn Hill and Zachary Evetts were indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury in Fort Worth on charges that include providing material support to terrorists and attempting to murder officers and employees of the U.S. government. Federal prosecutors accuse them of being members of an antifa cell that planned the shooting.<\/p>\n

Hill and Evetts were already among 11 people facing attempted murder charges<\/a> related to the July 4 shooting outside the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, southwest of Dallas, that injured a police officer. <\/p>\n

In a post on X on Thursday about the new charges, Attorney General Pam Bondi called antifa \u201ca left-wing terrorist organization,\u201d and said, \u201cthey will be prosecuted as such.\u201d<\/p>\n

Short for \u201canti-fascists,\u201d antifa is not a single organization but rather an umbrella term for far-left-leaning militant groups that confront or resist neo-Nazis and white supremacists at demonstrations.<\/p>\n

The indictment said the attack began when a group of people clad in black and wearing masks, some carrying firearms and wearing body armor, shot fireworks toward the center and vandalized vehicles and a guard shed. Then, as officers responded, one person yelled, \u201cget to the rifles\u201d and opened fire, striking an officer, according to the indictment.<\/p>\n

The indictment said that the group brought 10 firearms to the July 4 attack.<\/p>\n

Cody Cofer, an attorney for Hill, said in an emailed statement that the new terrorism-related charge \u201ccould be understood by some as an attempt to appeal to a mob mentality rather than relying on the evidence and the law.\u201d <\/p>\n

Patrick McLain, an attorney for Evetts, said that so far he\u2019s seen \u201czero basis\u201d for any of the charges against his client.<\/p>\n

The original charges filed over the summer say searches related to the attack found items including anti-government materials and flyers with political messages, but those documents did not mention antifa. <\/p>\n

Antifa is a domestic entity and, as such, is not a candidate for inclusion on the State Department\u2019s list of foreign terror organizations. There is no domestic equivalent to that list in part because of broad First Amendment protections enjoyed by organizations operating within the United States.<\/p>\n

The July 4 shooting took place as Trump<\/a> \u2019s administration has ramped up deportations. Days after that shooting, a man with an assault rifle fired dozens of rounds<\/a> at federal agents and a U.S. Border Patrol facility in McAllen near the Mexico border, injuring a police officer. Authorities shot and killed the attacker. <\/p>\n

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