Inside the Eldon B. Mahon U.S. Courthouse in Fort Worth Tuesday, jury selection was underway in the trial of nine people charged in connection with a nonfatal July 4 shooting outside the Prairieland ICE detention center in Alvarado.
Outside the courthouse, family, friends and other supporters gathered in solidarity with the defendants, carrying signs amid chants of “free them all.”
“I always tell everyone my sister, Savanna is sunshine in human form,” Amber Lowrey, sister of defendant Savanna Batten, said through tears. “Everything she does is to improve someone else’s life.”…