A Northern California woman and an Idaho man have been accused of running an international white nationalist terror ring linked to killings at a Slovakian gay bar and a spree of stabbings outside a Turkish mosque.
Federal prosecutors allege that Dallas Erin Humber, 34, of Elk Grove, near Sacramento, and Matthew Robert Allison, 37, of Boise, Idaho took over leadership of a terrorist organization called Terrorgram in 2022. Using the messaging platform Telegram, the white supremacist group allegedly published lists and photographs of people they wanted their followers to kill based on race, religion and gender identity. The channel was also used to attempt to solicit the assassination of an unnamed U.S. senator, prosecutors say.
The group's attacks on those deemed to be "enemies of the white race," and the targeting of government buildings and institutions, were allegedly intended to ignite a race war and collapse society. "High-value targets," such a government officials, were chosen to "sow chaos and further accelerate the government’s downfall," prosecutors said.
As leaders of Terrorgram, Humber and Allison encouraged members to become "saints" by killing targets that were doxed, the indictment alleges.
In October 2022, a 19-year-old Terrorgram user shot and killed two men outside a gay bar in Bratislava, Slovakia, before turning the gun on himself. His manifesto, posted on social media before the killings, specifically thanked Terrorgram leaders for inspiring the attack. Humber later narrated the manifesto and turned it into an audiobook, referring to it as "Fire AF," the indictment alleges.
In August, a Turkish teenager in a bulletproof vest and helmet allegedly livestreamed himself stabbing five people outside a mosque in northwest Turkey after posting on Terrorgram that morning, “Come see how much humans I can cleanse.” After the assault, the indictment alleges Humber wrote of the attacker, "He's not white so I can't give him an honorary title. We still celebrating his attack tho. He did it for Terrorgram."
Humber was born in Sacramento in 1989 and attended Laguna Creek High School. She described herself as a "hopeless fangirl" of serial killers since the age of 13, and spent years espousing hatred on forums such as 4chan and DeviantArt, where she went by monikers including “Little Lolita” and “xNazixInjectionx,” reports Left Coast Right Watch. The indictment details numerous instances of Humber allegedly using racist and homophobic slurs and urging members of Terrorgram to kill named targets.
“Today’s indictment charges the defendants with leading a transnational terrorist group dedicated to attacking America’s critical infrastructure, targeting a hit list of our country’s public officials, and carrying out deadly hate crimes — all in the name of violent white supremacist ideology,” said Attorney General Merrick B. Garland in a statement. “Today’s arrests are a warning that committing hate-fueled crimes in the darkest corners of the internet will not hide you."
Humber and Allison each face 15 charges, including soliciting hate crimes, soliciting the murder of federal officials and conspiring to provide material support to terrorists. They were arrested on Friday, prosecutors say. If convicted of all charges, the pair faces a maximum of 220 years in prison.
Federal prosecutors allege that Dallas Erin Humber, 34, of Elk Grove, near Sacramento, and Matthew Robert Allison, 37, of Boise, Idaho took over leadership of a terrorist organization called Terrorgram in 2022. Using the messaging platform Telegram, the white supremacist group allegedly published lists and photographs of people they wanted their followers to kill based on race, religion and gender identity. The channel was also used to attempt to solicit the assassination of an unnamed U.S. senator, prosecutors say.
The group's attacks on those deemed to be "enemies of the white race," and the targeting of government buildings and institutions, were allegedly intended to ignite a race war and collapse society. "High-value targets," such a government officials, were chosen to "sow chaos and further accelerate the government’s downfall," prosecutors said.
As leaders of Terrorgram, Humber and Allison encouraged members to become "saints" by killing targets that were doxed, the indictment alleges.
In October 2022, a 19-year-old Terrorgram user shot and killed two men outside a gay bar in Bratislava, Slovakia, before turning the gun on himself. His manifesto, posted on social media before the killings, specifically thanked Terrorgram leaders for inspiring the attack. Humber later narrated the manifesto and turned it into an audiobook, referring to it as "Fire AF," the indictment alleges.
In August, a Turkish teenager in a bulletproof vest and helmet allegedly livestreamed himself stabbing five people outside a mosque in northwest Turkey after posting on Terrorgram that morning, “Come see how much humans I can cleanse.” After the assault, the indictment alleges Humber wrote of the attacker, "He's not white so I can't give him an honorary title. We still celebrating his attack tho. He did it for Terrorgram."
Humber was born in Sacramento in 1989 and attended Laguna Creek High School. She described herself as a "hopeless fangirl" of serial killers since the age of 13, and spent years espousing hatred on forums such as 4chan and DeviantArt, where she went by monikers including “Little Lolita” and “xNazixInjectionx,” reports Left Coast Right Watch. The indictment details numerous instances of Humber allegedly using racist and homophobic slurs and urging members of Terrorgram to kill named targets.
“Today’s indictment charges the defendants with leading a transnational terrorist group dedicated to attacking America’s critical infrastructure, targeting a hit list of our country’s public officials, and carrying out deadly hate crimes — all in the name of violent white supremacist ideology,” said Attorney General Merrick B. Garland in a statement. “Today’s arrests are a warning that committing hate-fueled crimes in the darkest corners of the internet will not hide you."
Humber and Allison each face 15 charges, including soliciting hate crimes, soliciting the murder of federal officials and conspiring to provide material support to terrorists. They were arrested on Friday, prosecutors say. If convicted of all charges, the pair faces a maximum of 220 years in prison.
