Three more suspected members of a Texas antifa cell were indicted on state terrorism charges in connection with a July 2025 attack on federal officers outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Alvarado, Texas.Overnight on July 4, 2025, more than a dozen heavily armed antifa militants belonging to a Dallas-area antifa chapter ambushed Homeland Security personnel guarding the ICE holding site near Fort Worth. The coordinated attack left one local police officer, who was responding to a disturbance call at the detention center, shot in the neck.Now months after the nonfatal shooting, Melania Lynn Estes, Andrew Tyler Smith, and Steven Thomas Reyna became the latest alleged associates of the antifa cell to be charged, each facing one count of hindering the prosecution of terrorism and one count of engaging in organized criminal activity: smuggling of persons.
Estes, Smith, and Reyna are accused of helping Benjamin Hanil Song, the cell’s convicted ringleader, evade law enforcement after he shot Lt. Thomas Gross of the Alvarado Police Department on the night of the attack. Song, then a fugitive from justice, was the subject of a weeklong FBI manhunt and made the Texas Top 10 Most Wanted Fugitives list.
