North Texas teen joined neo-Nazi group to make mass school shooting threats: warrant

A Fort Worth 17-year-old accused of making social media threats to kill children at North Texas schools is part of a neo-Nazi group, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.

Investigators believe Evan Banda, who faces charges of terroristic threat and terrorism, joined a “violent international neo-Nazi and accelerationist extremist group” after meeting one of the organization’s leaders on a video game platform, a Fort Worth police detective wrote in the affidavit.

The name of the group was redacted in the copy of the warrant released to the Star-Telegram, but police wrote that the group “adheres to a ‘Nihilistic National socialist’ philosophy, combining neo-Nazi and Satanic ideologies. They promote extreme violence and chaos to bring about the collapse of western society, in this particular case, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas.”…

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