The FBI is looking for a army veteran suspected of being concerned in what authorities are calling an ambush on officers at an ICE detention facility in Texas on the Fourth of July.
Benjamin Hanil Music, 32, of Dallas, is now the twelfth suspect believed to be concerned in final Friday’s ambush at Prairieland Detention Heart in Alvarado, Texas.
Music, a former US Marine Corps reservist, is accused of firing two AR-15 model rifles at two correctional officers and one Alvarado police officer, in accordance with a felony grievance obtained by Fox Information Digital.
Music is charged with three counts of tried homicide of a federal officer and three counts of discharging a firearm in furtherance of a criminal offense of violence.
A Blue Alert was despatched out to Texas telephones Wednesday night, alerting residents that Music is “wanted for involvement in the serious injury of a law enforcement officer.”
The felony grievance alleges that Music joined a bunch of 10 to 12 others in an organized assault on officers on the Prairieland Detention Heart simply after 10:30 p.m. on Friday.
The group, wearing black military-style clothes, started capturing fireworks towards the detention middle, whereas others sprayed graffiti on autos and a guard construction within the parking zone on the facility, the grievance alleges.
Correctional officers referred to as 911 to report suspicious exercise. An Alvarado police officer arrived on scene and was shot within the neck by a suspect within the woods.
One other assailant throughout the road fired dozens of rounds at unarmed correctional officers who had stepped outdoors the power, the grievance alleges.
Federal prosecutors stated Music bought 4 of the weapons that had been present in reference to the capturing. Two of these – AR-style rifles – had been discovered on the scene.
Considered one of them had a binary set off, which permits the shooter to fireplace extra quickly than a regular semiautomatic gun.
Investigators recovered further firearms – together with one other AR-15 model rifle – whereas looking residences and autos.
Ten assailants are accused of fleeing from the detention middle however had been apprehended by further responding regulation enforcement officers.
Music was not positioned by regulation enforcement officers, in accordance with the grievance.
The grievance alleges {that a} white Mercedes-Benz registered to a relative of Music was discovered two days later in the identical block as one of many different assailant’s residences.
Music is now wished by the FBI and is taken into account armed and harmful.
The FBI is providing a $25,000 reward for info resulting in his arrest and conviction.
The ten others charged within the assault are: Cameron Arnold, Savanna Batten, Nathan Baumann, Zachary Evetts, Pleasure Gibson, Bradford Morris, Maricela Rueda, Seth Sikes, Elizabeth Soto and Ines Soto.
One other individual has been charged with obstruction of justice and conspiracy for making an attempt to hide and destroy proof, prosecutors stated.
