Texas woman gets 27 months for threatening to kill Jan. 6 judge

Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News on Nov 12, 2025

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A Texas woman who threatened to kill the federal judge overseeing President Donald Trump’s criminal case over the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol was sentenced Wednesday to two years and three months in prison.

Abigail Jo Shry, a 45-year-old Alvin resident, apologized in court, reported CBS News. She told the judge the “abhorrent” and racist voicemail she left “was not and is not reflective of my character or beliefs.”

The Justice Department had asked for a 33-month sentence for the threat against U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, according to CBS News. The judge settled on 27 months.

According to court documents, Shry called Chutkan’s office in Washington, D.C., from her home in the Houston suburbs on Aug. 5, 2023, shortly after Chutkan was assigned to the Trump Jan. 6 case.

In the call, Shry told Chutkan, “If Trump doesn’t get elected in 2024, we are coming to kill you, so tread lightly, b—h.”

She also called Chutkan a “stupid slave n—r” and made additional threats to kill Texas congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, “all Democrats in Washington, D.C., and all people in the LGBTQ community,” according to the Justice Department.

Investigators traced the call to Shry’s cellphone just days after it was made it. The Justice Department said she admitted to the feds that she’d placed the call and eventually pleaded guilty in November 2024 to transmitting interstate threats.

Her sentencing hearing had been delayed for months prior to Wednesday’s court date.

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