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A grand jury indicted Eric Munchel and his mother Lisa Eisenhart indicted on several charges connected to US Capitol riot on Jan. 6.

MPD MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (Mike Osborne)  --  Murfreesboro Police asked on Tuesday for the public’s help as they search for suspects in a shooting that left a woman dead and her car on fire. Officials say officers were called to a home on Leaf Ave. late Monday night. They found a car on fire in the home’s backyard with a woman trapped inside. Officers tried to pull the woman from the vehicle, but the fire’s heat was too intense. After firefighters doused the flames, investigators discovered the woman had been shot several times. She was pronounced dead soon after.

Federal prosecutors more than doubled the charges against so-called "Zip-Tie Guy" Eric Munchel and his mother Lisa Marie Eisenhart in a superseding indictment filed on Wednesday, charging them with eight counts, including carrying a deadly or dangerous weapon into the U.S. Capitol.

Zunkel and a colleague, Judith P Miller, both former federal defense attorneys, said that the level of skepticism and care federal judges were bringing to the decision of whether Capitol defendants were truly dangerous enough to keep incarcerated was not at all the norm. The problem, they said, was not that judges were making the wrong call in releasing Capitol defendants, but that judges were not making similar calls for the majority of people in the federal system. “For my Black and brown clients, it feels like they have to meet such an impossibly high threshold to be released,” M...

Spencer Platt/Getty Images Since the riots, local and federal authorities have arrested and charged at least 495 people. The Guardian found that at least 70% of Capitol defendants were granted pretrial release. Despite charges ranging from violent entry on Capitol grounds to assaulting a federal officer with a deadly weapon, approximately 70% of the charged Capitol rioters from January 6 have been released on pretrial bond, The Guardian reported Friday. Supporters of then-President Donald Trump stormed the US Capitol in an attempt to stop Congress from certifying...