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Texas woman allegedly threatens to kill Jamaican-born judge overseeing Trump criminal case
Tanya Chutkan (Photo: AP)
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August 16, 2023

Texas woman allegedly threatens to kill Jamaican-born judge overseeing Trump criminal case

HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas woman was arrested and has been charged with threatening to kill the Jamaican-born US federal judge overseeing the criminal case against former President Donald Trump in Washington and a member of Congress.

Abigail Jo Shry of Alvin, Texas, called the federal courthouse in Washington and left the threatening message — using a racist term for US District Judge Tanya Chutkan — on August 5, court records show. Investigators traced her phone number and she later admitted to making the threatening call, according to a criminal complaint.

READ: Jamaican-born judge to preside at Donald Trump’s trial

In the call, Shry told the judge, who is overseeing the election conspiracy case against Trump, “You are in our sights, we want to kill you,” the documents said. Prosecutors allege Shry also said, “If Trump doesn’t get elected in 2024, we are coming to kill you,” and she threatened to kill US Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, a Texas Democrat running for mayor of Houston, according to court documents.

A judge earlier this week ordered Shry jailed. Court records show Shry is represented by the Houston public defender’s office, which did not immediately return a message seeking comment on Wednesday.

Trump has publicly assailed Chutkan, a former assistant public defender who was nominated to the bench by President Barack Obama, calling her “highly partisan” and “ VERY BIASED & UNFAIR!” because of her past comments in a separate case overseeing the sentencing of one of the defendants charged in the January 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol.

Chutkan in a hearing Friday imposed a protective order in the case limiting what evidence handed over by prosecutors the former president and his legal team can publicly disclose. She warned Trump’s lawyers that his defense should be mounted in the courtroom and “not on the internet.”

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