ALVARADO, Texas (KXXV) — Federal authorities are searching for Benjamin Hanil Song in connection with the July 4, 2025, attack on the Prairieland Detention Center, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Alvarado.
During the incident, an Alvarado police officer was shot and wounded.
On July 9, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas in Fort Worth issued a federal arrest warrant for Song. He is charged with attempted murder of a federal officer and discharging a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence.
The FBI is offering a reward of up to $25,000 for information leading to Song’s arrest and conviction.
Gov. Greg Abbott said his office is also offering a reward up to $10,000 for information leading to the arrest of Song.
"The targeted attacks against our federal law enforcement officers is a crime and must end," Abbott said in a press release. "Criminals such as Benjamin Hanil Song will be arrested and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. I encourage Texans with information to call the Texas Crime Stoppers hotline or submit an anonymous tip online. Texas is and always will be a law-and-order state."
In a press release from the U.S. Attorney's Office, it detailed the incident and the role Song is accused of playing in the attack.
The complaint alleges that a group of at least a dozen people were involved. Song purchased four of the guns used that were found in connection to the shooting. Two AR-style rifles were found at the scene, which records show were purchased by Song.
As alleged in the complaint, the location data associated with Song’s cellular telephone indicates that his phone was located within several hundred meters of the Prairieland Detention Center from late in the evening of July 4, 2025, until after dark on July 5, the day after the shooting.
Additionally, the complaint alleges that on July 6, a white Mercedes Benz registered to a relative of Song was found on the same block of Bradford Morris’s residence. A DFW Airport camera captured an individual—believed to be Song—driving the Mercedes on May 23, 2025.
Song has been charged by federal complaint with three counts of attempted murder of federal agents and three counts of discharging a firearm in relation to a crime of violence. The ten others charged with these offenses in Monday’s complaint include Cameron Arnold, Savanna Batten, Nathan Baumann, Zachary Evetts, Joy Gibson, Bradford Morris, Maricela Rueda, Seth Sikes, Elizabeth Soto, and Ines Soto.
The FBI has deemed Song a wanted individual and advises that he should be considered armed and dangerous.
