EXCLUSIVE: Franklin Barrett Sechriest is accused of torching a synagogue last Halloween and a court filing states that he also committed an armed robbery of 4 Black victims and a Hispanic victim on the campus of Texas State University in August 2021.'
. Sechriest kept a series of journals, found by FBI agents, in which he wrote about his apparent hatred for Jews and Black people, along with his feelings about the food at Buffalo Wild Wings, prosecutors say. In one entry from Oct. 31, Sechriest wrote, “I set a synagogue on fire,” court records say.
“The evidence showed not only that Defendant set fire to the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue, a Jewish place of worship, on October 31, 2021, but that Defendant also committed an armed robbery of 4 Black victims and a Hispanic victim on the campus of Texas State University in August 2021,” the filing states, adding that the “nature and extent of this evidence alone justifies Defendant’s detention.
Sechriest spent most of his childhood in the San Diego area, where his father, Vernon, worked as a surgeon,As a child, Sechriest “experienced challenging psychological and physical symptoms,” the filing states.
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