On September 6, US authorities arrested the leadership of the Terrorgram Collective terrorist group. The defendants, 34-year-old Dallas Humber and 37-year-old Matthew Allison, spent years inciting hate crimes through closed Telegram groups in the name of white supremacy and in hope of triggering a racial war. The US indictment also ties them to the terrorist attack on Zámocká Street in Bratislava, confirming findings of the Investigative Center of Ján Kuciak’s (ICJK.sk) earlier investigation from November 2022.
On October 12, 2022, the group’s leaders allegedly celebrated the Zámocká Street terrorist as the “first saint of Terrorgram” after he shot and killed two people, Juraj Vankulič and Matúš Horváth, outside Tepláreň bar, an LGBTQ place in Bratislava.
The pair from California were allegedly leaders of an international white supremacist group. As previously reported, Terrorgram consists of radical right-wing channels on Telegram where anonymous users spread neo-Nazi propaganda. The group aimed to spark a race war in the US by planning attacks on critical infrastructure and targeting “high-value” individuals. According to the FBI, the group also encouraged terrorist attacks worldwide.
The 19-year-old Zámocká Street shooter was reportedly radicalized through Terrorgram materials. He read their guides and communicated in the same groups as the now-indicted leaders. Hours before the attack outside the Tepláreň bar, he published a manifesto thanking Slovak extremist “SlovakBro”– in the meantime arrested and sentenced to six years in jail in Slovakia – and the “Terrorgram collective” for their writings and practical guides. „Building the future of a white revolution, one publication after another,” the shooter wrote.
Before the attack, the shooter also sent a 61-page manifesto to Dallas Humber, who later turned it into an audiobook. Information from Terrorgram, which ICJK.sk had access to in November 2022, supports the US indictment’s claims. A linguistic analysis suggested that the shooter may have collaborated on the manifesto with experienced radicals in the U.S.
Actively Seeking “Future Saints”
According to US investigators, the Zámocká Street shooter was actually in direct contact with Terrorgram leaders before the attack. Humber reportedly stated in a group chat that if he became a “saint,” she would narrate his book. “That’s the cost of admission, so to speak,” she added.
The audio version of his manifesto was indeed released shortly after the Bratislava shooting.
The indictment also reveals details about Terrorgram’s recruitment efforts. The two arrested US leaders allegedly worked to recruit, radicalize, equip, advise, and inspire others to carry out attacks in support of Terrorgram’s mission. They actively sought “future saints,” individuals susceptible to radicalization and committing terrorist attacks.
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