The black clothing worn by 11 people made it difficult for law enforcement to determine the precise acts of each person late on July 4, when one of them is accused of shooting a local police lieutenant outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Johnson County.
Although much of the activity was recorded on video, the defendants’ use of monikers in encrypted written messages in advance of the shooting, avoidance of cellphones that would indicate their location and employment of other methods to maintain “op-sec,” has stymied the connection of behavior to defendant.
In a case in which the criminal complaint’s top count is attempted murder but in which the relative culpability of each defendant is in question by their defense attorneys, their individual roles were a focus of a joint probable cause hearing on Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Fort Worth…