Shane Jenkins, 45, is one of several Houston-area residents arrested and charged for their roles during the Capitol Riots, including a former Houston police officer.
was found guilty this past Wednesday after a trial where he was accused of throwing objects at police and smashing a window with a tomahawk axe. Video footage shows him taking the axes out of his bag and smashing a window to the left of the Lower West Terrace tunnel area of the U.S. Capitol.
The FBI also reports several videos of Jenkins showing the incident on social media.Security video also showed the 45-year-old receiving, picking up from the groundand throwing objects, including a wooden desk drawer, a broken wooden pole, as well as other "stick-like objects," authorities said, at officers. Jenkins was arrested at his northwest Houston home on March 5, 2021, and expected to have a sentencing hearing on July 28, 2023.
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