A Texas woman has been charged after she left a voicemail for the federal judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s criminal case in Washington, D.C., threatening to kill her.
The voicemail for Judge Tanya Chutkan was left by Abigail Jo Shry on Aug. 5. According to court documents, in the voicemail, she said she was going to “kill anyone who went after former President Trump.”
The court documents go on to say that the death threats from Shry also included racist comments towards the judge, who is Black.
Prosecutors said in their court filings that Shry called the judge a “stupid slave n***er” while making her death threats.
“If Trump doesn’t get elected in 2024, we are coming to kill you, so tread lightly, b*tch,” Shry said in the message, according to the complaint. “You are in our sights. We want to kill you.”
Three days after she made the call, special agents with the Department of Homeland Security appeared at her home in Alvin, a suburb of Houston.
Shry admitted to special agents with the Department of Homeland Security on Aug. 8 that she made the call to Chutkan’s chambers but that she “had no plans to travel to Washington, DC or Houston to carry out anything she stated,” the complaint said.
Shry has since been charged with Transmission in Interstate or Foreign Commerce of any Communication Containing a Threat to Injure the Person of Another.
Shry is currently awaiting trial and being held in detention until a bond hearing set for Sept. 13.
In the complaint, the authorities shared that Shry continued her threats, saying that Chutkan and her family would be “publicly” and “personally” targeted.
The complaint also noted that Shry made “a direct threat to kill Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, all democrats in Washington D.C., and all people in the LGBTQ community.”
When confronted by police earlier this month, she allegedly told investigators that she wasn’t not going to go to D.C. to carry out the attack, but that if “if Lee comes to Alvin, then we need to worry.”
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