Texas woman arrested for threatening to ‘kill’ Jamaica-born judge Trump called ‘biased and unfair’ after Q-linked site doxxes Fulton County grand jurors and racist attack on Georgia prosecutor
A Texas woman has been arrested and charged with threatening the federal judge overseeing Donald Trump’s Jan. 6 case — while identifying information about grand jurors in Trump’s latest indictment has been posted online.
The developments are part of a series of threatening or potentially threatening incidents amid the high-profile trials swirling around the former president.
The woman, Abigail Jo Shry of Alvin, called the federal courthouse in Washington, D.C., where Judge Tanya Chutkan oversees the Trump case, and reportedly said, “We want to kill you,” prosecutors said.
That event, revealed in an indictment by prosecutors, occurred during a week when Trump was the center of attention in other cases following his indictment by a grand jury in Fulton County, Georgia, for attempting to overturn the election there. .
In that case, the names of grand jurors were placed on far-right message boards after being included in the indictment. That happened on a site that posted messages from “Q” of the QAnon conspiracy theory. Other sites posted the names as part of a “hit list.”
Abigail Jo Shry of Alvin, Texas, allegedly called the federal courthouse in Washington on Aug. 5 and left the threatening message — using a racist term for U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, court records show
Fulton County DA Fanni Willis herself has been a victim of racist attacks, she revealed weeks before the indictment.
Early this month, she sent one of the threats she said she received to district commissioners, advising them to “stay alert” and “stay safe.”
She also forwarded an obscene message she said she received leading up to the indictment of Trump and 18 other people, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported.
It called her a “corrupt (racial expletive),” menacing, “You’re going to fail, you Jim Crow Democrat (expletive).”
The threat against Chutkan came on August 5, according to court records.
Trump put the spotlight back on the judge this week by chasing her online, calling her “very partisan” and calling out her language as he sentenced a Jan. 6 defendant. “She clearly wants me behind bars. VERY PRECISE & DISFAIR!’
Chutkan himself had warned Trump not against attacks on himself, but against statements that could intimidate a witness or influence the jury. She said “incendiary statements” could lead to her having to expedite the trial due to jury considerations.
The Texan woman, one supporter of Donald Trump has been accused of threatening to kill the federal judge overseeing a criminal case against the former president, as well as a member of the Congress.
Abigail Jo Shry of Alvin, Texas, allegedly called the federal courthouse in Washington on Aug. 5 and left the threatening message — using a racist term for U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, court records show.
“Hey you stupid slave nigger,” she began the message, which she left outside the judges’ chamber at 7:50 p.m., according to Department of Homeland Security officials.
Investigators traced her phone number and she later admitted to making the threat calls, according to an indictment.
During the phone call, Shry told the judge, who oversees the federal election interference conspiracy against Trump, “You’re in our sights, we want to kill you,” the documents said.
During the phone call, Shry told U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who oversees the election conspiracy against Trump, “You’re in our sights, we want to kill you,” the documents said.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis announced she had received threats before Trump’s grand jury indictment in Georgia
Judge Chutkan warned Trump against any harassment that could intimidate a witness or juror. She has now been the subject of a threatening phone call
Special Counsel Jack Smith has charged Trump with alleged crimes to obstruct the 2020 election results and also for his mishandling of classified documents. Trump is also being charged in New York over alleged hush money payments.
This week, the former president was also charged in Georgia over his alleged role, along with 18 co-defendants, in overturning the state’s 2020 presidential election.
Smith has called for the trial of federal election interference charges to begin in July.
Prosecutors allege Shry also told Chutkan in the message, “If Trump isn’t elected in 2024, we’re coming to kill you, so be careful.”
She also threatened to kill U.S. Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, a Texas Democrat running for mayor of Houston, according to court documents.
In addition, she set her sights on “all Democrats in Washington DC and all people in the LGBTQ community.”
“You will be targeted personally, publicly, your family, everything,” she added.
When questioned by DHS agents, Shry claimed she had no plans to go to Washington, but said if Lee came to Alvin, “we should be concerned.”
A judge earlier this week ordered Shry to be jailed.
On Monday, she was held without bond and charged with communicating a threat to injure another person across state lines, according to WUSA.
Shry has been charged four times in the past year on similar charges and has been jailed 30 times.
Prosecutors allege Shry also said, ‘If Trump isn’t elected in 2024, we’re coming to kill you, so be careful, b***h’
Shry also allegedly threatened Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee
She had been released on bail on July 11 for felony threats, leading her to fear imminent serious bodily harm when she threatened Chutkan.
Court records show Shry is being represented by the Houston public defender’s office, which did not immediately return a message asking for comment on Wednesday. Shry will appear at a full bond hearing on Sept. 13.
Trump has publicly attacked Chutkan, a former assistant attorney nominated to the bench by President Barack Obama, calling her “very partisan” and “ERY BIASED & DISFAIR!” for her previous comments in a separate case overseeing the sentencing of one of the defendants charged during the January 6, 2021 U.S. Capitol riot.
Chutkan imposed a protective order in the case during a hearing on Friday, limiting the evidence the former president and his legal team are allowed to disclose by prosecutors.
She warned Trump’s lawyers that his defense should take place in court and “not on the internet.”
Chutkan also warned the former president’s lawyers that he could get a faster trial if he continues to make “inflammatory” statements that could affect the jury.
In a stern message, she said she would not let the process over allegations that he undermined the 2020 election turn into “a carnival atmosphere of uncontrolled publicity and process by the media.”