The El Capitan Theatre, wherever the "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" amusement was filmed, successful Hollywood, California, US, connected Friday, Sept. 19, 2025.
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A California territory lawyer connected Monday said that determination is "circumstantial evidence" indicating that a erstwhile lobbyist accused of shooting astatine ABC's affiliate presumption successful Sacramento was "politically motivated," and perchance spurred by the network's caller suspension of Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show.
The grounds includes a publication captious of President Donald Trump and a enactment expressing animus toward 3 of Trump's apical law-enforcement officials, Sacramento DA Thien Ho told NBC News connected Monday.
That enactment besides mentioned "Epstein," an evident notation to the notorious enactment offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The suspect, Anibal Hernandez Santana, faces some authorities and national charges for Friday afternoon's shooting astatine KXTV ABC10.
"He chose a precise peculiar target, and with the notes that helium near down and the people successful spot and the caller dismissal of the Jimmy Kimmel show, I deliberation there's circumstantial grounds determination to amusement that this was a politically motivated transgression by this individual," Ho told NBC.
"He drove up to the scene, got retired connected foot, fired astatine the building, astatine the ABC quality station, got backmost successful his vehicle, and near the scene, wherever we aboriginal arrested him astatine his residence."
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The attack, captured connected surveillance video, occurred 2 days aft the Disney subsidiary ABC suspended Kimmel aft comments helium made astir the sidesplitting of blimpish activistic Charlie Kirk.
Police recovered 3 holes successful a model of the lobby of the ABC affiliate that were accordant with harm from bullets, according to a national transgression complaint.
Hernandez Santana was arrested Friday nighttime by Sacramento police.
A time earlier, protestors had gathered extracurricular the presumption to protestation Kimmel's suspension.
Portrait of American financier Jeffrey Epstein, left, and Donald Trump arsenic they airs unneurotic astatine the Mar-a-Lago property successful Palm Beach, Florida, successful 1997.
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Investigators recovered a handgun astatine Hernandez Santana's home, on with "a enactment successful his calendar that said thing to the grade of this is the adjacent scary happening to do," Ho told NBC.
Investigators besides "conducted different hunt and recovered immoderate disturbing handwritten notes adjacent to an anti-Trump book" and "a enactment that was written by the defendant" astir "hiding Epstein and ignoring reddish flags."
A enactment recovered astatine Santana's car said, "For hiding Epstein & ignoring reddish flags. Do not enactment Patel, Bongino, & AG Pam Bondi. They're next. – C.K. from above," according to a complaint filed against the erstwhile lobbyist successful Sacramento national court.
Federal instrumentality enforcement files astir Epstein person been withheld by the Justice Department contempt Attorney General Pam Bondi's anterior committedness to merchandise them to the public.
The Trump medication has faced disapproval implicit its refusal to disclose the files for months.
Kash Patel is the FBI's director, and Dan Bongino is Patel's deputy.
Hernandez Sanatana is charged with aggregate felonies.
He is owed to look connected Monday day successful national court.
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