Shane Leedon Jenkins biography: 13 things about US Capitol rioter from Houston, Texas

Shane Leedon Jenkins is an American man from Houston, Texas, United States. On January 6, 2021, he and other supporters of Donald Trump breached the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., USA while a joint session of Congress was certifying the vote of the Electoral College and affirming Joe Biden‘s victory in the 2020 presidential election.

For Jenkins’ role in the riot, he was convicted of corruptly obstructing an official proceeding of Congress; interfering with law enforcement officers during a civil disorder; assaulting, resisting or impeding law enforcement officers with a deadly or dangerous weapon; destruction of government property; entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon; disorderly or disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon; and engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon, which are felonies. He was also convicted of disorderly conduct in a U.S. Capitol building and act of physical violence in the U.S. Capitol grounds or buildings, which are misdemeanors. 

Jenkins is 6’1″ tall and his registered weight is 210 pounds. He has several tattoos including one under his right eye and and another across his neck with the words, “Mama Tried.”

Aside from Houston, Jenkins has lived in other parts of Texas including Decatur, Fort Worth and North Richland Hills. Here are 13 more things about him:

1. In 1997, his stepfather pointed a shotgun at him and made death threats so he fatally shot his stepfather in self-defense.
2. From October 3-5, 2001, he was booked into the Denton County Jail in Denton, Texas. He was charged with assault of a public servant, resisting arrest search or transport and failure to maintain financial responsibility.
3. On May 21, 2003, he filed a notice of appeal from the trial court’s judgment rendered on May 10, 2002. A motion for extension of time to file the notice of appeal. No motion for new trial was filed in the trial court, making his notice of appeal due on June 10, 2002. On June 4, 2003, the court informed him it was concerned it lacked jurisdiction over the appeal and offered him the opportunity to demonstrate grounds for continuing the appeal. 
4. On November 24, 2012, he was booked into the Wise County Jail in Decatur. He was charged with aggravated assault.
5. From March 4, 2013 to April 4, 2013, he was booked into the Wise County Jail. He was charged with parole violation and driving while intoxicated.
6. On January 6, 2021, wearing a red Nautica beanie, a blue hoodie, a black jacket and camouflage pants, he was caught on camera pulling a metal survival hatchet out of his bag, which he used to smash a window to the left tunnel in the building’s Lower West Terrace area. At 9:49 p.m., he confronted police officers outside of an Embassy Suites Hotel on 10th Street in Washington, D.C.
7. On March 2,2021, U.S. Magistrate Judge G. Michael Harvey signed a criminal complaint filed by a Federal Bureau of Investigation special agent against him.
8. On March 5, 2021, FBI agents arrested him at his home in Houston.
9. On April 15, 2021, he pleaded not guilty to all counts filed against him for his role in the U.S. Capitol riot on January 6, 2021.
10. On May 25, 2021, U.S. District Judge Amit P. Mehta ordered he must remain in the D.C. Central Detention Facility in Southeast, Washington, D.C. until his trial.
11. In July 2023, he and 11 other inmates in the D.C. Central Detention Facility‘s Correctional Treatment Facility (CTF) wing assaulted Taylor Taranto in a television room after Taranto said derogatory things about Ashli Babbitt and Babbitt’s mother.
12. On October 6, 2023, Mehta sentenced him to 84 months in prison and 36 months of supervised release and ordered to pay $5,176 in restitution.
13. He was 46 years old when he was sentenced on October 6, 2023 to seven years in prison.

If you have information about someone who participated in the U.S. Capitol riot on January 6, 2021, call 1-800-CALL-FBI or submit relevant photos and videos to the FBI.