A self-described anti-fascist has testified that she helped an alleged Antifa shooter evade capture after a police shooting at a Texas immigration facility in 2025.

Lynette Sharp took the stand as a cooperating government witness on March 4, during the second week of what is expected to be a three-week trial. The landmark case marks the first time alleged members of the far-left Antifa extremist group have been charged with terrorism-related offenses.

The trial in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas follows President Donald Trump’s executive order on Sept. 22, 2025, designating Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization.

Sharp pleaded guilty last year to one count of providing material support to terrorists in connection with what authorities say was an illegal attack on the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Alvarado, Texas, on July 4, 2025.

During the alleged attack that defendants called a “noise protest,” the government accused defendant Benjamin Song of shooting at police and detention officers 11 times at the Prairieland facility until his rifle jammed.

​Song then allegedly hid in nearby woods for 24 hours. ​The prosecution alleged that Song confessed to the shooting and that cooperating witnesses, who have already pleaded guilty to terrorism-related charges, would corroborate that claim.

Cameron Arnold (also known as Autumn Hill), Zachary Evetts, Bradford Morris (also known as Meagan Morris), Maricela Rueda, and Song face the most serious charges of attempted murder, discharging a firearm during a crime of violence, and providing material support to terrorists.

Other defendants facing lesser charges include Savanna Batten, Elizabeth Soto, Ines Soto, and Daniel Rolando Sanchez-Estrada.

All have pleaded not guilty.

Sharp read her plea agreement while on the stand, acknowledging that she and other coconspirators “adhered to an anti-fascist, anti-ICE, anti-government ideology, which the government classifies as Antifa.”

She clarified in testimony the following day that she is not an anarchist or a member of Antifa. She affirmed that she signed a plea deal with the government, which considers her ideology to be the same as that of Antifa.

Sharp testified that the alleged shooter, who was hiding in the nearby woods, sent her a message. She picked him up near the Prairieland facility, drove him to a nearby apartment, and gave him items such as a wig and clothing to disguise himself from the police, she told the jury.

She drove the alleged shooter to meet with another person, who moved him to another apartment, she said.

During her testimony, she described taking security precautions about the group chat in which the events leading up to the protest were discussed.

She could not attend, so she signed out of the chat for “operational security,” giving her plausible deniability if things went wrong at the ICE facility, she said.

At one point, when identifying the defendants, Sharp, who was in handcuffs, wiped away tears.

When the prosecution asked her about why she was growing emotional, she said the defendants were her friends.

“I love them,” she said.

Sharp went into detail about her growing involvement with the defendants in the alleged Antifa cell, saying that she met Song when he was teaching martial arts in 2022.

She testified about eventually becoming a member of the Socialist Rifle Association, in which she and other members would learn gun safety and practice shooting.

Sharp expressed disdain for police, testifying that they do not care whether “creepy men” sexually assault women. All police are bad because none of them stand up to the corrupt, she claimed.

Eventually, she was invited to the “big gay house,” where defendants Arnold and Morris lived. She told the jury that she joined the group’s “book club,” in which members would read literature called “zines” on topics such as gender identity, philosophy, and history, and then have group discussions.

The group discussed anarchy during their time together, she testified.

“Some people believed that was a solution,“ she said. ”Some people didn’t.”

Sharp said the group thought that the government was going to fail at some point in the future.

She attended events at which pamphlets were offered, such as a “de-arrest primer.” She claimed that Song explained such tactics as a way for protesters to help someone break free from police if arrested.

During Sharp’s testimony, Judge Mark Pittman asked the jury to be excused from the courtroom, issuing a rare rebuke to a defendant.

“Mr. Song, I need you to refrain from mouthing words,” Pittman said.

Government law enforcement witnesses also alleged that Morris blamed the alleged shooter for using the rest of the defendants as a distraction that night so that he could get away after fulfilling his “fantasy.”

Texas Ranger Tyler Williamson told the jury that Morris had told him that he “felt disgust and betrayal.”