Texas woman who made series of violent threats fails to report to prison

Washington — Abigail Shry's verbal threats against nationalist officials person been racist, convulsive and detailed. Her targets person included a national justice successful Washington, a Democrat successful the House and the Texas Capitol. She allegedly erstwhile said she would "annihilate" the Texas authorities successful an "armed attack" that would beryllium much convulsive than the Jan. 6 insurrection.

At 1 point, a national authoritative said Shry was "unmoored" and posed a danger.

Now there's a caller concern: The feds can't find her.

Shry was expected to study to situation Tuesday successful Florida, but she failed to amusement up and has gone connected the lam. A justice has issued a seat warrant for national agents to find and apprehension her.

Shry was owed to statesman serving a 27-month national situation condemnation successful her astir caller menace case. She pleaded guilty successful November 2024 to a national complaint successful Texas for a telephone connection she near successful the Washington, D.C., chambers of Judge Tanya Chutkan.

The menace came hours aft Chutkan was assigned to oversee President Trump's 2020 predetermination conspiracy lawsuit successful August 2023. According to the Justice Department, Shry called Chutkan a "stupid enslaved [epithet]" and said, "If Trump doesn't get elected successful 2024, we're coming to termination you. So tread lightly." 

Shry, who has lived successful Alvin, Texas, southbound of Houston, was besides accused of threatening then-Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, a Democrat. Court documents said Shry near a telephone connection saying she wanted to termination Lee and would people her "personally, publicly, your family, each of it." Lee died by earthy causes 11 months later.

Shry had been seeking to hold her national situation word successful a bid of motions successful tribunal this year. But a justice denied those requests.

CBS News has learned Shry was scheduled to self-surrender to the national correctional installation successful Tallahassee, Florida, connected Tuesday, but did not show. A national justice successful Houston has ordered a warrant for her arrest.

A CBS News reappraisal of Texas authorities tribunal records recovered Shry was besides nether probe for threats against Texas legislators successful 2023, during impeachment proceedings against Trump state and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. Shry pleaded nary contention to making the threats and reached a plea statement to service a 90-day jailhouse term, according to tribunal filings.

State constabulary successful Texas alleged Shry near a telephone menace successful July 2023 connected the voicemail systems of 2 Houston-area authorities senators. Police said the messages warned that determination would beryllium "war connected the Texas Capitol" if Paxton was impeached.

"Shry specifically states that determination would beryllium an equipped onslaught and it would not beryllium non-violent similar the January 6th protests astatine the U.S. Capitol," constabulary said. They said Shry besides warned that "we volition instrumentality weapons, travel to Austin and annihilate the government."

According to Texas police, Shry had besides made a abstracted acceptable of threats against members of Congress successful 2023. A constabulary study reviewed by CBS News said Shry "contacted respective U.S. elected officials successful Congress and has made akin threats towards them pertaining to if Donald Trump is not reelected arsenic president, they volition besides spot an onslaught of the U.S. Capitol."

Shry's nonaccomplishment to study to national situation volition further complicate her state and exposure her to greater ineligible jeopardy. Greg Rosen, a erstwhile national authoritative successful Washington, D.C., told CBS News that Shry risks facing further transgression proceedings.  

"Failing to self-surrender oregon look undermines the spot judges spot successful defendants erstwhile granting them merchandise successful the archetypal instance," Rosen said. "It besides creates further transgression vulnerability nether Title 18 of the national codification — thing prosecutors whitethorn prosecute some to deter aboriginal formation and to relationship for the resources required to apprehend them."

At a detention proceeding for Shry successful August 2023, successful the days aft Shry's menace against Chutkan, a national authoritative expressed interest that Shry's threats would escalate.

"Judge, my top interest successful this lawsuit is that she starts watching Fox News again, gets herself spun up, she goes out, she gets a lawsuit of beer, continues to get herself spun up," the authoritative said, according to a transcript of the hearing. "There's nary mode to gauge what's going to hap here, but to look astatine what she's done successful the past six months."

"In this peculiar instance," the authoritative past told the judge, "I don't privation to beryllium that FBI cause that didn't spell cheque connected Lee Harvey Oswald 2 days earlier John Kennedy was assassinated. That happened. And that's the footnote successful history. And I'm lasting present earlier you contiguous due to the fact that this suspect is unmoored and I judge that there's going to beryllium more."

Shry's defence attorneys did not instantly respond to a petition for comment. One of those attorneys filed a question Wednesday to retreat from the case, aft Shry failed to surrender.