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summary: "On November 25, 2022, 16-year-old Gabriel Rodrigues Castiglioni attacked two schools in Aracruz, Brazil wearing AWD-associated symbols, killing four and wounding eleven in an attack attributed to Terrorgram Collective mentorship under Dallas Humber."
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summary: "On November 25, 2022, 16-year-old Gabriel Rodrigues Castiglioni shot people at two Aracruz, Brazil schools wearing a swastika armband, killing four and wounding twelve; U.S. prosecutors list the attack among those guided by Dallas Humber."
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On November 25, 2022, [[Gabriel Rodrigues Castiglioni]] (16) attacked two schools in [[Aracruz, Espírito Santo]], Brazil, killing four people and wounding eleven. He attacked [[Escola Estadual Primo Bitti]] first and then [[Escola Praia de Coqueiral]], wearing military-style camouflage, a bulletproof vest, a skull mask associated with [[Atomwaffen Division]], and a homemade swastika armband. The attack was attributed in the prosecution of [[Terrorgram Collective]] leader [[Dallas Humber]] to her guidance: approximately one month before the attack, Humber and co-leader [[Matthew Robert Allison]] discussed a Brazilian contact planning "a racially motivated school attack in Brazil" in a secret Telegram chat, and Humber subsequently created Terrorgram "saint cards" for Castiglioni, characterizing him as "her kid." The Aracruz shootings are listed as the most lethal Terrorgram-attributed attack in Humber's sentencing documents and as one of the attacks [[Matthew Althorpe]]'s publications helped inspire in his Canadian sentencing (March 27, 2026).[^1]
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On November 25, 2022, [[Gabriel Rodrigues Castiglioni]], 16, attacked the [[Escola Estadual Primo Bitti]] and then the [[Centro Educacional Praia de Coqueiral]] in the Coqueiral district of [[Aracruz, Espírito Santo]], [[Brazil]], with a .40 pistol issued to his father by the [[Polícia Militar do Espírito Santo]] and a .38 revolver his father had bought privately. Three teachers and a 12-year-old student were killed and twelve people were wounded.[^1][^2] He wore camouflage clothing, a hat, a vest and a mask, with a swastika armband that Governor [[Renato Casagrande]] confirmed as a Nazi symbol; [[Agência Brasil]] described the mask as a skeleton face similar to the one worn in photographs by one of the perpetrators of the 2019 [[Suzano school shooting]].[^3] The government's sentencing memorandum against [[Terrorgram Collective]] leader [[Dallas Humber]] lists "G.C." among seven people who plotted or committed attacks "inspired and guided by her leadership."[^4]
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### The Attacks
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Castiglioni struck Escola Estadual Primo Bitti first during school hours on November 25, 2022. The four people killed were: [[Selena Zagrillo]] (12), a student who was shot while hiding under a desk; [[Maria da Penha Pereira de Melo Banhos]] (48), a teacher who was attempting to shield students; [[Cybelle Passos Bezerra Lara]] (45); and [[Flavia Amoss Merçon Leonardo]] (38). Eleven additional people were wounded across both school sites. Castiglioni was apprehended at or near the scene.
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According to the reconstruction given by police delegate [[André Jaretta]] on November 28, 2022, the teenager took the family car with its license plate covered while his parents were shopping, entered Primo Bitti, a school he had attended until June 2022, by a rear gate whose padlock he cut, and fired into the teachers' room, reloading once. He then drove to the Centro Educacional Praia de Coqueiral, a private school, and fired a revolver at students in the entrance hall and through a window into an upper-floor classroom, before returning home and putting away the clothing and weapons.[^5] The attack began at about 9:30 in the morning.[^3] He was apprehended at about 2:10 in the afternoon at a family beach house, the [[Polícia Civil do Espírito Santo]] said.[^6]
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### Terrorgram Attribution
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The dead were the teachers [[Maria da Penha Pereira de Melo Banhos]] (48) and [[Cybelle Passos Bezerra Lara]] (45), killed at Primo Bitti; the teacher [[Flávia Amboss Merçon Leonardo]], who died in hospital on November 26 (outlets give her age as 36 and 38); and [[Selena Sagrillo Zuccolotto]], 12, a sixth-grader at the private school.[^1][^7] Police charged him with acts analogous to qualified homicide and attempted homicide; he confessed after being shown surveillance footage.[^5][^8]
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The DOJ's case against Humber established the specific mechanism of Terrorgram's involvement. Court documents confirmed that in a secret Telegram channel on approximately October 23, 2022, Humber and Allison discussed a Brazilian contact's planned attack. The one-month gap between that conversation and the Aracruz shootings aligns with the attack date, and prosecutors attributed the event to Humber's guidance. Humber's post-attack creation of saint cards for Castiglioni - and her affectionate description of him as "her kid" - confirmed the relationship was not purely passive circulation of ideology but active mentorship of the kind Humber had also maintained with the [[Juraj Krajčík|Bratislava]] and other attackers.
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### Terrorgram and the United States Record
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This attribution placed the Aracruz attack within Terrorgram's documented operational pattern: the network maintained direct contact with individuals planning attacks, produced saint cards celebrating completed attacks, and used those cards to inspire the next attack.[^2]
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The government's sentencing memorandum in [[United States v. Humber]] (November 26, 2025) lists "G.C. shot eleven people, killing four, at two schools in Aracruz, Brazil" among attacks "inspired and guided by her leadership," and says it would file under seal the "Saint cards" Humber created to commemorate the shootings by J.K. ([[Juraj Krajčík]], Bratislava) and G.C., "whom she considers 'symbolically [her] kids.'"[^4] [[Raw Story]] reported in March 2025 that a government filing opposing bail for [[Matthew Robert Allison]] described a secret chat of October 23, 2022 in which Humber told Allison she "had direct messages with a Terrorgram user who was planning to commit a racially motivated school shooting," with details matching the Aracruz attack a month later.[^9]
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### Prosecutions and Sentences
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[[ProPublica]] and [[FRONTLINE]] reported that after the attack Humber posted to a Terrorgram channel a ZIP file of information on it, including 17 photographs and four videos, said the massacre was motivated by "Hatred of non-Whites," and wrote that the assailant would get a "SLAP ON THE WRIST" sentence because of his age; they called it the most deadly known crime stemming from Terrorgram.[^10] At Humber's sentencing on December 17, 2025, prosecutor [[Christopher J. Perras]] told the court she "was responsible for inciting" the Bratislava shooting, a stabbing outside a mosque in Turkey "and a school shooting in Aracruz, Brazil that left teachers and children dead." She was sentenced to 360 months.[^11][^12]
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Brazilian courts sentenced Castiglioni to three years in juvenile detention in December 2022. He was released on supervised release by November 2025. No additional proceedings were reported following his completion of the sentence.
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The researcher [[Michele Prado]] told Raw Story that a Terrorgram pseudonym, "Wolf Boy Winter," contributed pages to the Terrorgram zine [[The Hard Reset]] and interacted with Brazilian adolescents.[^9]
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Humber was sentenced to 30 years in U.S. federal prison on December 19, 2025, with the Aracruz attack explicitly listed as one of seven attacks or plots linked to her leadership. Althorpe received 20 years in Canadian federal prison on March 27, 2026, with the attack similarly cited in his agreed statement of facts.[^1]
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### Brazilian Proceedings
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### Terrorgram Propagation
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On December 7, 2022, Judge [[Felipe Leitão]] of the Vara da Infância e Juventude de Aracruz imposed the socio-educational measure of internment for up to three years, the maximum under the [[Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente]], with psychiatric follow-up.[^13] He left internment in late November 2025; the [[Tribunal de Justiça do Espírito Santo]] told [[A Gazeta]] on December 2, 2025 that he continues under assisted liberty, and the [[Ministério Público do Espírito Santo]] said Brazilian law does not allow him to be held responsible again as an adult.[^1]
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On approximately November 27, 2022, two days after the attack, an unidentified [[Terrorgram Collective]] member using the pseudonym "Wolf Boy Winter" posted a video still from Escola Estadual Primo Bitti attack surveillance footage to a high-traffic Terrorgram channel. The same individual contributed multiple pages to "[[The Hard Reset]]," one of the network's primary propaganda publications, which the [[US Department of Justice]] later cited in the indictment of Dallas Humber and Matthew Robert Allison as a document created as part of a conspiracy to "recruit, radicalize, equip, advise, inspire and solicit others to commit attacks." In this way the Aracruz attack was immediately incorporated into Terrorgram's saint-documentation and propaganda pipeline, with attack footage transformed into promotional content within 48 hours.[^3]
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The Polícia Militar opened a disciplinary procedure against his father, a lieutenant, on November 28, 2022, over how the son obtained the two weapons.[^5] In June 2025 victims and relatives circulated a petition stating that the father had "until today not been punished and has not even been located to be officially cited in the process."[^14] The state government compensated only those hurt at the state school Primo Bitti, under a 2023 plan modeled on São Paulo's after Suzano.[^15]
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### Brazilian Investigative Response
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The [[Espírito Santo]] federal court was the first Brazilian institution to take direct legal action against the platform infrastructure. On April 26, 2023, Federal Judge [[Wellington Lopes da Silva]] of Espírito Santo ordered a nationwide suspension of [[Telegram]] after the platform failed to provide authorities with subscriber data from two neo-Nazi channels: the "Brazilian Anti-Semitic Movement" (Movimento Antissemitico Brasileiro) and the "Anti-Semitic Front" (Frente Antissemitica). Both channels had been recovered from the phone of the Aracruz perpetrator or a subsequent school-attack suspect, and contained what prosecutors described as murder tutorials, bomb-manufacturing instructions, and violent videos in addition to Nazi content. Judge da Silva ordered Google and Apple to remove Telegram from their app stores and directed mobile carriers to block access; Telegram was simultaneously fined approximately R$1 million (approximately US$198,000) per day until it complied. The suspension was lifted on April 28, 2023, after Telegram provided partial data.[^4]
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The [[Polícia Federal]] found two antisemitic [[Telegram]] groups, "Movimento Anti-Semita Brasileiro" and "Frente Anti-Semita," on the phone seized from the teenager; PF delegate [[Leopoldo Soares Lacerda]] wrote that the minor "was inspired by the material shared on the application to commit the act of violent extremism."[^16][^17] Justice Minister [[Flávio Dino]] had ordered a PF inquiry into neo-Nazi organizations on April 5, 2023. The PF asked the federal court in Linhares on April 14, 2023 to break the groups' data; Telegram supplied administrator data for one channel and said the other had been deleted. On April 26, 2023, Federal Judge [[Wellington Lopes da Silva]] found the compliance partial, raised the daily fine to R$1 million and ordered Telegram suspended nationwide, directing [[Google]] and [[Apple]] to remove it from their app stores.[^17][^18] The suspension was lifted on April 28, 2023.[^19]
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On June 2, 2023 the PF executed search warrants in São Paulo and Petrolina, Pernambuco, in Operação Bedel, against two members of the group, investigated for corrupting a minor by inducing him to commit qualified homicide and an offense under the Anti-Terrorism Law; the PF wrote that "the use of the swastika on the minor's clothing at the time of the attack demonstrates the influence of Nazi ideology received from the application group."[^20]
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### Michele Prado and ABIN Reporting
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In 2023, [[Michele Prado]], founder of the Brazilian NGO [[Stop Hate Brasil]], submitted a formal report to [[ABIN]] (Agência Brasileira de Inteligência) and the [[Ministry of Justice and Public Security]] identifying Telegram channels linked to Terrorgram members operating in Brazil, including a channel associated with the "Wolf Boy Winter" pseudonym. Prado had been monitoring Terrorgram's Brazilian operations since at least 2022 and by 2023 documented more than 40 school-related violent incidents with some connection to online extremist networks over a three-year span. At least two of the Terrorgram-affiliated groups she identified had been created by adolescents.[^5]
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In 2023, Prado, founder of the Brazilian NGO [[Stop Hate Brasil]], submitted a report to the [[Agência Brasileira de Inteligência]] (ABIN) and the [[Ministry of Justice and Public Security]] identifying Telegram channels linked to Terrorgram members operating in Brazil, including a channel associated with the "Wolf Boy Winter" pseudonym. Prado had been monitoring Terrorgram's Brazilian operations since at least 2022 and by 2023 documented more than 40 school-related violent incidents with some connection to online extremist networks over a three-year span. At least two of the Terrorgram-affiliated groups she identified had been created by adolescents.[^21]
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### Federal Police Statistics
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The Federal Police (Polícia Federal) recorded a 279% increase in investigations of Nazi propaganda on social media platforms from 2022 to 2023, making 2023 the highest year on record for such inquiries. A broader government accounting reported 2,830 ongoing investigations into school violence by June 2023, with over 380 arrests by that date. A GNET analysis published in November 2024 documented 177 Federal Police investigations into Nazi propaganda on social media platforms between January 2021 and February 2024, with 82 still ongoing at that date.[^5][^6]
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The Polícia Federal recorded a 279% increase in investigations of Nazi propaganda on social media platforms from 2022 to 2023, making 2023 the highest year on record for such inquiries. A broader government accounting reported 2,830 ongoing investigations into school violence by June 2023, with over 380 arrests by that date. A [[Global Network on Extremism and Technology]] analysis published in November 2024 documented 177 Federal Police investigations into Nazi propaganda on social media platforms between January 2021 and February 2024, with 82 still ongoing at that date.[^21][^22]
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### Ciro Daniel Amorim Ferreira
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On January 13, 2025, the US State Department designated [[Ciro Daniel Amorim Ferreira]] of Belo Horizonte, [[Minas Gerais]], as a [[Specially Designated Global Terrorist]] in connection with his role as a Terrorgram channel administrator. Ferreira is the only Brazilian national publicly designated in connection with the Terrorgram Collective. The designation did not specifically allege direct contact between Ferreira and Castiglioni; the direct contact with the Aracruz perpetrator was documented through the Humber prosecution rather than through the Ferreira designation. The US government's naming of a Brazilian administrator confirms that the Terrorgram network had established domestic Brazilian infrastructure, not merely international reach into Brazil.[^7]
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On January 13, 2025, the [[United States Department of State]] designated [[Ciro Daniel Amorim Ferreira]] of Belo Horizonte, [[Minas Gerais]], as a [[Specially Designated Global Terrorist]] in connection with his role as a Terrorgram channel administrator.[^23]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice, OPA. "Leader of Transnational Terrorist Group Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison." December 19, 2025. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/leader-transnational-terrorist-group-sentenced-30-years-prison-soliciting-hate-crimes-and; Public Prosecution Service of Canada. "PPSC Sentencing Announcement, Matthew Althorpe." March 27, 2026. https://www.ppsc.gc.ca/eng/nws-nvs/2026/27_03_26.html
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[^2]: Raw Story. "Terrorgram: Exporting Terrorism." https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/terrorgram-terrorism/
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[^3]: Raw Story. "'The Hard Reset': Here's how the U.S. is exporting terrorism around the world." https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/terrorgram-terrorism/; ProPublica/FRONTLINE. "The Rise and Fall of Terrorgram: Inside a Global Online Hate Network." https://www.propublica.org/article/rise-and-fall-terrorgram-inside-global-online-hate-network-frontline-telegram
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[^4]: France 24. "Brazil court suspends Telegram app in neo-Nazi probe," April 26, 2023. https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230426-brazil-court-suspends-telegram-app-in-neo-nazi-probe; TechTimes. "Brazilian Court Orders Temporary Suspension for Telegram Over Neo-Nazi Groups," April 26, 2023. https://www.techtimes.com/articles/290845/20230426/brazilian-court-orders-temporary-suspension-telegram-over-neo-nazi-groups.htm
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[^5]: GNET. "Terrorgram and Youth Radicalisation: Understanding Brazil's Online Extremist Landscape," November 22, 2024. https://gnet-research.org/2024/11/22/terrorgram-and-youth-radicalisation-understanding-brazils-online-extremist-landscape/
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[^6]: Rest of World (Matheus Andrade). "Research links school shootings with extremist online culture, gaming, and memes," 2023. https://restofworld.org/2023/online-extremism-linked-school-shootings-brazil/
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[^7]: US Department of State. "Terrorist Designations of The Terrorgram Collective and Three Leaders," January 13, 2025. https://2021-2025.state.gov/office-of-the-spokesperson/releases/2025/01/terrorist-designations-of-the-terrorgram-collective-and-three-leaders/; Federal Register Vol. 90, No. 10, Document 2025-00756, January 15, 2025. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/15/2025-00756/specially-designated-global-terrorist-designations-of-the-terrorgram-collective-ciro-daniel-amorim
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[^1]: Júlia Afonso, "Atirador em ataques a escolas de Aracruz é solto após três anos," A Gazeta, December 2, 2025. https://www.agazeta.com.br/es/policia/atirador-em-ataques-a-escolas-de-aracruz-e-solto-apos-tres-anos-1225
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[^2]: "Autor de ataques em escolas de Aracruz é filho de PM e tinha suástica na roupa," O Tempo, November 25, 2022. https://www.otempo.com.br/brasil/autor-de-ataques-em-escolas-de-aracruz-e-filho-de-pm-e-tinha-suastica-na-roupa-1.2772415
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[^3]: Léo Rodrigues, "ES: adolescente usa arma do pai e símbolo nazista em ataque a escolas," Agência Brasil, November 25, 2022. https://agenciabrasil.ebc.com.br/geral/noticia/2022-11/es-adolescente-usa-arma-do-pai-e-simbolo-nazista-em-ataque-escolas
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[^4]: United States v. Humber, No. 2:24-cr-00257 (E.D. Cal.), ECF 90, "Formal PSR Objections and Sentencing Memorandum" by the United States, November 26, 2025. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.caed.452335/gov.uscourts.caed.452335.90.0.pdf
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[^5]: "PM instaura Processo Administrativo contra pai de assassino de Aracruz," Século Diário, November 28, 2022. https://www.seculodiario.com.br/seguranca/pm-instaura-processo-administrativo-contra-pai-de-assassino-de-aracruz/
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[^6]: "Após atentado, atirador de Aracruz almoçou com os pais e foi para a praia," SBT News, November 28, 2022. https://sbtnews.sbt.com.br/noticia/brasil/231714-apos-atentado-atirador-de-aracruz-almocou-com-os-pais-e-foi-para-a-praia
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[^7]: "Ataques em escolas: saiba quem são as vítimas mortas em Aracruz," A Gazeta, November 26, 2022. https://www.agazeta.com.br/es/policia/ataques-em-escolas-saiba-quem-sao-as-vitimas-mortas-em-aracruz-1122
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[^8]: "Polícia investiga se atirador de Aracruz tem ligação com grupos neonazistas," A Gazeta, November 26, 2022. https://www.agazeta.com.br/es/policia/policia-investiga-se-atirador-de-aracruz-tem-ligacao-com-grupos-neonazistas-1122
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[^9]: "Terrorgram: Exporting Terrorism" (Raw Investigates), Raw Story, March 7, 2025. https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/terrorgram-terrorism/
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[^10]: "The Rise and Fall of Terrorgram: Inside a Global Online Hate Network," ProPublica and PBS FRONTLINE, 2025. https://www.propublica.org/article/rise-and-fall-terrorgram-inside-global-online-hate-network-frontline-telegram
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[^11]: United States v. Humber, No. 2:24-cr-00257 (E.D. Cal.), ECF 111, Transcript of Judgment and Sentencing, December 17, 2025, pp. 30-31. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.caed.452335/gov.uscourts.caed.452335.111.0.pdf
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[^12]: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Public Affairs, "Leader of Transnational Terrorist Group Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison for Soliciting Hate Crimes and Murder, and Conspiring to Provide Material Support to Terrorists," December 17, 2025. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/leader-transnational-terrorist-group-sentenced-30-years-prison-soliciting-hate-crimes-and
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[^13]: Tribunal de Justiça do Espírito Santo, "Juiz de Aracruz conclui processo em relação ao autor dos ataques às duas escolas ocorrido no mês de novembro," December 7, 2022. https://www.tjes.jus.br/?p=157406
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[^14]: "Vítimas de atentado de Aracruz mobilizam abaixo-assinado por justiça," Século Diário, June 11, 2025. https://www.seculodiario.com.br/seguranca/vitimas-de-atentado-de-aracruz-mobilizam-abaixo-assinado-por-justica/
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[^15]: Fabiana Tostes, "Massacre de Aracruz: Governo do ES vai indenizar vítimas do ataque à escola estadual," Folha Vitória, 2023. https://www.folhavitoria.com.br/politica/massacre-de-aracruz-governo-do-es-vai-indenizar-vitimas-do-ataque-a-escola-estadual/
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[^16]: "PF diz que post antissemita no Telegram influenciou ataque a escola em Aracruz," CartaCapital, April 27, 2023. https://www.cartacapital.com.br/cartaexpressa/pf-diz-que-publicacao-antissemita-no-telegram-influenciou-ataque-a-escola-em-aracruz/
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[^17]: "Entenda por que juiz do ES mandou tirar Telegram do ar," A Gazeta, April 2023. https://www.agazeta.com.br/es/cotidiano/entenda-por-que-juiz-do-es-mandou-tirar-telegram-do-ar-0423
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[^18]: "Justiça determina a suspensão do Telegram por não repassar dados à PF," Gazeta do Povo, April 2023. https://www.gazetadopovo.com.br/vida-e-cidadania/justica-determina-suspensao-do-telegram-no-brasil-por-nao-apresentar-dados-a-pf/
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[^19]: France 24, "Brazil court suspends Telegram app in neo-Nazi probe," April 26, 2023. https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230426-brazil-court-suspends-telegram-app-in-neo-nazi-probe; TechTimes, "Brazilian Court Orders Temporary Suspension for Telegram Over Neo-Nazi Groups," April 26, 2023. https://www.techtimes.com/articles/290845/20230426/brazilian-court-orders-temporary-suspension-telegram-over-neo-nazi-groups.htm
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[^20]: "PF cumpre mandados contra grupo neonazista ligado a assassino de Aracruz," A Gazeta, June 2, 2023. https://www.agazeta.com.br/es/policia/pf-cumpre-mandados-contra-grupo-neonazista-ligado-a-assassino-de-aracruz-0623
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[^21]: Sofia Schurig, "Terrorgram and Youth Radicalisation: Understanding Brazil's Online Extremist Landscape," GNET, November 22, 2024. https://gnet-research.org/2024/11/22/terrorgram-and-youth-radicalisation-understanding-brazils-online-extremist-landscape/
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[^22]: Rest of World (Matheus Andrade), "Research links school shootings with extremist online culture, gaming, and memes," 2023. https://restofworld.org/2023/online-extremism-linked-school-shootings-brazil/
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[^23]: U.S. Department of State, "Terrorist Designations of The Terrorgram Collective and Three Leaders," January 13, 2025. https://2021-2025.state.gov/office-of-the-spokesperson/releases/2025/01/terrorist-designations-of-the-terrorgram-collective-and-three-leaders/; Federal Register Vol. 90, No. 10, Document 2025-00756, January 15, 2025. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/15/2025-00756/specially-designated-global-terrorist-designations-of-the-terrorgram-collective-ciro-daniel-amorim
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summary: "United States v. Humber (2:24-cr-00257, E.D. Cal.) is the primary U.S. federal prosecution of the Terrorgram Collective's inner leadership, charging Dallas Humber and Matthew Robert Allison on 15 counts including conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists under 18 U.S.C. 2339A, resulting in Humber's 30-year sentence in December 2025."
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summary: "United States v. Humber (2:24-cr-00257, E.D. Cal.) prosecuted Terrorgram Collective leaders Dallas Humber and Matthew Robert Allison on 15 counts including material support to terrorists, ending in Humber's 30-year sentence in December 2025."
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### Evidence Cited
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The indictment and DOJ press releases identified specific evidentiary items: Humber's December 2022 post of electrical substation transformer images captioned "for educational purposes only of course"; her January 2023 post praising the Randolph County, [[EnergyUnited]] substation shooting as evidence that Terrorgram's "hard work in detailing its effectiveness" had "encouraged" the attack; her October 2022 communications with a [[Telegram]] user planning a Brazil school shooting one month before the [[Aracruz school shootings|Aracruz attack]]; her continued contact from pretrial detention; all three Terrorgram publications (*Militant Accelerationism*, *Do It For The Gram*, *The Hard Reset*); and the "White Terror" video series produced by Allison featuring 105 far-right killers.[^4]
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The indictment and DOJ press releases identified specific evidentiary items: Humber's December 2022 post of electrical substation transformer images captioned "for educational purposes only of course"; her January 2023 post praising the Randolph County, [[EnergyUnited]] substation shooting as evidence that Terrorgram's "hard work in detailing its effectiveness" had "encouraged" the attack; her October 2022 statement that she had direct messages with a [[Telegram]] user planning a school shooting, one month before the [[2022 Aracruz School Shootings|Aracruz attack]] (described in a government filing opposing Allison's bail, as reported by Raw Story);[^4] her continued contact from pretrial detention; all three Terrorgram publications (*Militant Accelerationism*, *Do It For The Gram*, *The Hard Reset*); and the "White Terror" video series produced by Allison featuring 105 far-right killers.[^5]
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[^1]: CourtListener. United States v. Humber, 2:24-cr-00257 (E.D. Cal.). https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69144957/united-states-v-humber/; DocumentCloud. Humber-Allison Indictment. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25598913-humber-allison-indictment/
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[^2]: U.S. Department of Justice, OPA. "Leaders of Transnational Terrorist Group Charged." September 9, 2024. https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/leaders-transnational-terrorist-group-charged-soliciting-hate-crimes-soliciting-murder; DOJ OPA. "Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke Delivers Remarks Announcing Charges Against Leaders of Transnational Terrorist Group." September 9, 2024. https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/speech/assistant-attorney-general-kristen-clarke-delivers-remarks-announcing-charges-against
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[^3]: Lawfare. "Why the Terrorgram Collective Designation Matters." January 2025. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/why-the-terrorgram-collective-designation-matters
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[^4]: Fox 8. "'Terrorgram' leaders Dallas Humber, Matthew Allison referenced North Carolina EnergyUnited substation shooting, court documents show." https://myfox8.com/news/storylines/power-grid-attack/indicted-terrorgram-neo-nazi-cited-randolph-county-substation-attack-court-documents-show-this-avenue-of-attack-has-really-caught-on/
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[^4]: "Terrorgram: Exporting Terrorism" (Raw Investigates), Raw Story, March 7, 2025. https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/terrorgram-terrorism/
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[^5]: Fox 8. "'Terrorgram' leaders Dallas Humber, Matthew Allison referenced North Carolina EnergyUnited substation shooting, court documents show." https://myfox8.com/news/storylines/power-grid-attack/indicted-terrorgram-neo-nazi-cited-randolph-county-substation-attack-court-documents-show-this-avenue-of-attack-has-really-caught-on/
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