Three More Suspects Indicted in July 2025 Texas Antifa Attack on ICE Facility
Melania Lynn Estes, Andrew Tyler Smith, and Steven Thomas Reyna face state terrorism charges for allegedly helping the cell’s ringleader evade capture after the July 4, 2025 ambush that wounded an Alvarado police lieutenant.
Washington ExaminerA Texas grand jury indicted Melania Lynn Estes, Andrew Tyler Smith, and Steven Thomas Reyna on state terrorism charges for their alleged role in helping the convicted leader of a Dallas-area antifa cell escape after a July 4, 2025 attack on federal officers outside an ICE facility in Alvarado.
The three each face one count of hindering the prosecution of terrorism and one count of engaging in organized criminal activity: smuggling of persons. Washington Examiner reported that the indictment, returned in March and unsealed recently, brings the total number of individuals suspected of involvement in the attack to 22 alleged antifa operatives across state and federal proceedings.
U.S. history. On the night of July 4, 2025, more than a dozen heavily armed antifa militants from a Dallas-area chapter ambushed Homeland Security personnel guarding the ICE holding site near Fort Worth.
One local police officer responding to a disturbance call at the detention center was shot in the neck. Benjamin Hanil Song, identified by prosecutors as the cell’s ringleader, was the only defendant convicted of attempted murder in the federal trial; he was placed on the Texas Top 10 Most Wanted Fugitives list and became the subject of a weeklong FBI manhunt.
Estes, Smith, and Reyna are accused of collaborating with Lynette Read Sharp and Susan Elaine Kent to harbor or conceal Song after he shot Lt.
Thomas Gross of the Alvarado Police Department. Sharp previously pleaded guilty to federal charges of providing material support to terrorists after admitting she supplied Song with a disguise. Kent pleaded guilty after telling investigators she coordinated lodging and transportation to move Song between safe houses.
