A Sacramento federal grand jury handed up an indictment against two alleged leaders of a “transnational” white supremacist group — one of them an Elk Grove woman — accused of soliciting their followers on the messaging app Telegram to assassinate federal officials and commit hate crimes, federal prosecutors said Monday.
Matthew Robert Allison of Boise, Idaho, and Dallas Erin Humber, 34, of Elk Grove face 15 counts of charges related to conspiracy related to the solicitation of hate crimes, soliciting the murder of federal officials, doxxing federal officials, distributing information related to explosives and destructive devices and conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists.
Both defendants urged their followers to kill protected classes and develop a so-called “saint culture” by celebrating previous terrorist attackers, said Assistant U.S. Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. Their words were consumed by a 19-year-old Slovakia man who shot three people, two of them fatally, at an LGBTQ+ bar in Bratislava, Clark said. The man killed himself while being pursed by police.
“The defendants’ goal, the indictment charges, was to ignite a race war, accelerate the collapse of what they viewed as an irreparably corrupt government and bring about a white ethnostate,” Clarke said during an online news conference.
Allison and Humber joined a messaging group named “The Terrorgram Collective” that aimed to spur a white revolution and domination after the group’s previous leader was arrested, federal prosecutors said.
The group created a list of “high-value targets” — which included a U.S. senator, U.S. District Court judge and a former United State Attorney — for assassination. The list included the victims’ home addresses, names and photographs, according to the indictment.
Both defendants also created a 24-minute documentary that celebrated 105 white supremacist attacks, according to the indictment.
“After chronicling each of the attacks, the documentary concludes with the message: ‘To the Saints of tomorrow watching this today, know that when you succeed you will be celebrated with reverance and your sacrifice will not be in bin. Hail the Saints and hail our glorious and bloody legacy of white terror.’”
Humber was booked into the Sacramento County Main Jail on Friday afternoon, online jail records show. She is ineligible for bail.
Humber will appear in Sacramento federal court for her arraignment on Monday, with Allison scheduled to appear for his first court hearing Tuesday in Boise, said U.S. Attorney Phillip Talbert of the Eastern District of California.
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