The US District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee has added a terrorism charge to an indictment against a man who allegedly firebombed a nonprofit research and education center.
According to court documents from yesterday published by the Court Watch website, Regan Darby Prater has now also been accused of handing over a list of “individuals purportedly affiliated with Israel” to the Hezbollah terror organization.
Along with malicious use of fire, the additional charge Prater now faces is for the attempted provision of material support to a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization.
Earlier court documents said Prater was motivated by the mass shootings targeting mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, several days before he carried out the firebombing attack in March of 2019.
He spray-painted a symbol of the Iron Guard, a WWII-era Romanian Nazi group, in the parking lot of the nonprofit center that he targeted, the documents said.
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