Three more people are accused of helping hide the person who shot and wounded a police officer outside a North Texas immigration detention center last year, court records show.
A Johnson County grand jury indicted Melanie Estes, Steven Reyna and Andrew Smith in March for allegedly helping Benjamin Song after he shot Alvarado Police Lt. Thomas Gross during a demonstration outside the Prairieland Detention Center the night of July 4, 2025.
The indictments accuse the trio of working with defendants Lynette Sharp and Susan Kent to help Song escape from Prairieland the day after the shooting, but the documents do not detail their exact roles. Sharp and Kent pleaded guilty last year in federal court to being part of a plan to transport Song from the fields near Prairieland to Dallas…