Fourth area resident charged in Capitol riot
A Houston man smashed a window with a hatchet and hurled a desk drawer and flagpole at law enforcement officers during the deadly Jan. 6 pro-Trump invasion of the U.S. Capitol, new court documents allege.
Following an investigation that was prompted by a tip from a stranger, FBI agents arrested Shane Leedon Jenkins on Friday morning at his northwest Houston home, the agency said. Jenkins marks the fourth Houstonarea resident charged in connection with the Capitol attack as federal agents continue tracking down suspects.
Jenkins is charged in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia with civil disorder, assaulting officers with a dangerous weapon, destruction of government property, entering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly conduct in a restricted building or grounds and engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds, according to a criminal complaint.
In mid-January, an online sleuth filed an FBI tip with information about Jenkins’ social media accounts and public videos showing his involvement in the riot, according to the complaint. The defendant appears in multiple photos and videos with a reddish-blonde beard, red beanie and blue hoodie, a tattoo under his right eye and a neck tattoo with the words, “MAMA TRIED.”
Federal agents located a video
showing Jenkins remove a metal survival hatchet from a backpack, put on black gloves and smash a window to the left of the Lower West Terrace tunnel, according to court records. The window repair cost roughly $1,500, officials said.
Security and body-worn camera footage show Jenkins throwing a pole, a desk drawer, a metal rod and flagpole at a group of Metropolitan Police Department and U.S. Capitol Police officers, striking some of them in the head as they attempted to prevent the crowd from infiltrating a tunnel, court documents allege.
A parole officer with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice helped federal
agents verify Jenkins’ identity in photos and videos.
The other Houston-area men charged for their participation in breaching Capitol grounds are bakery owner and Salvadorian native
Wilmar Jeovanny Montano Alvarado; Tam Pham, a Houston police officer who has since resigned; and Joshua R. Lollar, a 39-yearold disabled veteran from Spring.