Michael Chadwick Fry, 34 Accused of Ramming into the Fox 4 KDFW Offices

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Police arrested a man after he repeatedly crashed his truck into KDFW FOX 4’s downtown Dallas building early Wednesday morning, the broadcast news station has reported.

Details remain scarce, but according to KDFW the man rammed his truck into the floor-to-ceiling windows on the first floor of the station’s office on North Griffin Street, jumped out, and started ranting. The station’s own photojournalists filmed him placing boxes filled with stacks of paper beside a door to the building, and the papers were strewn all over the ground nearby. KDFW reporter Brandon Todd told the station that the man said something about “high treason,” and ranted about a sheriff’s department as he held the papers up against the building’s windows. A KDFW photojournalist reported the papers seemed to be referencing an officer-involved shooting in Denton.

Police arrived and arrested the man, identified as Michael Chadwick Fry, at the scene. KDFW reported Fry will be charged with criminal mischief. No one was injured.

Fry also left behind a suspicious bag, prompting investigators to evacuate the station. According to KDFW, some employees stayed behind in a secure part of the building so they could keep the station on air during its GoodDay morning news show. Dallas police and K-9 units swept the street and building, finding no explosives.
The incident comes as journalists across the country face severe threats and violence. Earlier this week, the FBI arrested a man for allegedly making a series of phone calls to the Boston Globe threatening to kill reporters, calling them the “enemy of the people,” parroting a phrase that President Donald Trump has frequently used to describe journalists. In June, five people were killed after a man armed with a shotgun and smoke grenades attacked the Capital Gazette newspaper offices in Maryland—the man had previously sued the newspaper for defamation.

Dallas police spokesman Max Geron said the incident did not appear to be a direct attack against journalists. Geron also said Fry appears to be mentally ill and believed people were trying to kill him. The papers Fry had in his possession described a rambling conspiracy theory related to a 2012 police shooting in Denton County, when a sheriff’s deputy killed a driver during a traffic stop. Fry was a passenger in the car when the fatal shooting occurred.

During the Incident Fox 4 staff members has to take precautions. The Motive is under investigation at this time

 

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Update on the Fox 4 Ramming Incident

Michael Chadwick Fry, 34, was identified as the suspect who rammed a pickup truck into the FOX 4 building, police sources told WFAA.
Author: WFAA Staff
Published: 7:22 AM CDT September 5, 2018
Updated: 12:14 PM CDT September 5, 2018
A man intentionally rammed a pickup truck multiple times into the FOX 4 building in downtown Dallas on Wednesday morning, but police said he wasn't targeting the media and the man later told reporters he was upset with police and "just wanted...the media to do their job."

Michael Chadwick Fry, 34, was arrested and faces a second-degree felony charge of criminal mischief, police said.

As police walked him into the Dallas County jail, Fry pleaded with reporters, "Please don't let them punish me for trying to stay alive. They committed a high treason against me."

After ramming a Dodge Ram pickup truck into the FOX 4 building, Fry pulled a bag out of the truck, prompting a bomb squad investigation, but the bag was cleared, police said.

Several panes of glass were busted on the windows of the building, and a slew of papers was scattered across the parking lot.

Among the papers were printouts of a WFAA article about Fry from 2012. The article was a story about an officer-involved shooting in Denton County. A driver, Roberto Carlos Hernandez, was accused of ramming a sheriff deputy's cruiser and was fatally shot by the deputy. Fry was a passenger in the vehicle.

The printout of the article was covered in rambling handwriting, referencing "high treason" and "witchery," conspiracies and accusing police officials of being "payed off."

"They tryed to kill me," the handwriting said. "And they missed. And hit him."

As he walked into the jail on Wednesday, Fry told reporters, "They were trying to kill me, and they missed and they killed Roberto Carlos Hernandez. Ever since I've been running for my life and I don't know what to do."

WFAA President & General Manager Brad Ramsey issued the following statement Wednesday morning:

“WFAA covered the shooting in October 2012 as depicted in the printout left at the scene, and we stand by the facts in the original article. Our thoughts are with our colleagues at FOX 4 today"

When officers made contact with Fry, he was "rambling and just saying all kinds of nonsense," said Cpl. Debra Webb, police spokeswoman.

"It appears he was in some kind of agitated mental state," Webb said. "Not really sure what the issue is and why he was doing this today."

https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/d...ce-wanted-media-to-do-their-job/287-591057740

 

[Will_H_69_9]

guy had a history of being a criminal and also had mental health issues.

it's a miracle nobody got hurt and he didn't come with actual bombs and guns, unlike the guy who shot up the Capital Gazette building in Annapolis, Maryland a while back.

but this is a bad time to be a media outlet cause you got a president and his supporters calling it fake news and some could just take it up the next level and violently attack them like how terrorist groups and dictator's military/police do when the media speaks up against them in countries with no freedom of speech and or press.