DETROIT — Eric Mark-Matthew Allport, the anti-government extremist hailed as a martyr by the Boogaloo movement, was shot and killed by FBI agents two years ago, steps away from a fully automatic machine gun and a mobile arsenal after vowing to kill law enforcement officers, court records show.
The man who built the machine gun, Ypsilanti resident Danny Jo Thompson, 30, will be sentenced Tuesday in federal court in a case that describes him as a Boogaloo supporter who voiced violent rhetoric and who knowingly provided an illegal, deadly weapon to someone eager to kill police officers.
Documents filed in Thompson's case, made public Monday, chronicle the roots of a domestic terrorism investigation that spanned at least three states and ended Oct. 2, 2020, in a Texas Roadhouse parking lot in Madison Heights with FBI agents shooting and killing Allport.
