Toluwani Osibamowo
Law and Justice ReporterToluwani Osibamowo covers law and justice for KERA News. She joined the newsroom in 2022 as a general assignments reporter. She previously worked as a news intern for Texas Tech Public Media and copy editor for Texas Tech University’s student newspaper, The Daily Toreador, before graduating with a bachelor’s degree in journalism. She was named one of Current's public media Rising Stars in 2024. She is originally from Plano.
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After about two days of deliberation, the 12 jurors found Benjamin Song alone was guilty of attempted murder, but defendants were convicted of rioting and other charges. -
Nine defendants face a mix of 12 charges, the most serious of which are three counts of attempted murder against U.S. officers or employees. -
The jury is expected to begin deliberating after hearing closing arguments and being read the jury charge Wednesday. -
Prosecutors will likely rest their case early this week after two weeks of presenting evidence in what the Trump administration calls the first domestic terrorism case associated with “antifa." -
Seth Sikes testified he had no intentions of violence the night a police officer was nonfatally shot outside an ICE detention center — and he didn't know anyone else did. -
Anti-fascism, anarchy and the abolition of ICE were common themes in literature and paraphernalia investigators found in the defendants' homes and cars. -
Fort Worth federal Judge Mark Pittman specifically named Benjamin Song as the person who nonfatally shot a police officer outside an ICE detention center. Pittman ruled Song and the defendants charged with aiding and abetting him cannot claim the officer was shot to protect anyone. -
It's week 2 of the Prairieland ICE detention center shooting trial. Here’s what we’ve learned so farAlleged antifa materials and a self-defense theory that could change the trajectory of the case: Here’s what jurors learned in week one of the Prairieland trial. -
A federal judge in Fort Worth swore in a jury Monday for the trial of nine defendants accused in the nonfatal shooting of a police officer outside an ICE detention center July 4. -
A second round of jury selection begins in federal court Monday after the judge declared a mistrial last week. Nine defendants are accused in the nonfatal shooting of a police officer July 4. -
Judge Mark Pittman's order comes after he declared a mistrial during jury selection Tuesday. He believed a defense attorney wearing a shirt depicting civil rights protest imagery was an attempt to sway prospective jurors' opinions. -
The shirt, which appeared to show civil rights protestors, led Judge Mark Pittman to halt jury selection.
