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It was 2:20 p.m. on June 6, 2020, and Steven Carrillo, a 32-year-old Air Force sergeant who belonged to the anti-government Boogaloo Bois movement, was on the run in the tiny mountain town of Ben Lomond, California.
With deputy sheriffs closing in, Carrillo texted his brother, Evan, asking him to tell his children he loved them and instructing him to give $50,000 to his fiancée. “I love you bro,” Carrillo signed off. Thinking the text message was a suicide note from a brother with a history of mental health troubles, Evan Carrillo quickly texted back: “think about the ones you love.”
‘I Felt Hate More Than Anything’: How an Active Duty Airman Tried to Start a Civil War Steven Carrillo’s path to the Boogaloo Bois shows the hate group is far more organized and dangerous than previously known. Steven Carrillo is charged with murdering a Santa Cruz County deputy sheriff and a security officer guarding Oakland’s federal courthouse. Credit:(FRONTLINE)
By Gisela Pérez De Acha, Kathryn Hurd and Ellie Lightfoot
| April 13, 2021 9:58 a.m.
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It was 2:20 p.m. on June 6, 2020, and Steven Carrillo, a 32-year-old Air Force sergeant who belonged to the anti-government Boogaloo Bois movement, was on the run in the tiny mountain town of Ben Lomond, California.
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