Three supporters of white nationalist Richard Spencer were arrested Thursday in connection with an incident in which a shot was fired.

Three supporters of white nationalist Richard Spencer were arrested Thursday in connection with a shooting, according to Gainesville police.

William Henry Fears, 30; Colton Gene Fears, 28; and Tyler Eugene Tenbrink, 28; were charged with attempted homicide and held in the Alachua County jail. Tenbrink was also charged with being a felon in possession of a weapon.

At 5:20 p.m. Thursday, a silver Jeep with William Fears and Colton Fears, who are brothers, and Tenbrink pulled up to a bus stop at 3315 SW Archer Road, where a small group of people were sitting. The men began cheering Adolf Hitler and chanting.

One person hit the vehicle’s rear window with a baton, and the car sped away before abruptly stopping.

Tenbrink got out of the car with a handgun. William Fears and Colton Fears yelled, “I’m going to f---ing kill you,” and “Shoot them.”

Tenbrink fired one shot toward the crowd. The shot missed and struck the building that was behind the people.

The Fears brothers and Tenbrink fled eastbound in the vehicle. One of the victims noted the vehicle’s tag number, and Alachua County Sheriff’s Office deputies found the men driving north on Interstate 75 around 9 p.m. Law enforcement officers stopped the Jeep near the 405 mile marker. Tenbrink told law enforcement he fired the shot.

Gainesville Police Department spokesman Ben Tobias said two handguns were found in the vehicle.

Tenbrink's bond was set at $3 million. William Fears and Colton Fears each are held on $1 million bond.

Tobias said law enforcement agencies are still investigating the case, and he did not know if race was a factor in the shooting.

Dan Baker, 30, from Tallahassee, was with seven other people after leaving the protests outside the Phillips Center, where Spencer had finished speaking. The group split up, and four stayed at the bus stop while Baker and three others turned back to return to the protests.

Baker, a U.S. Army veteran, recognized the sound of a gunshot, and when he turned around the four people had their hands in the air and were scrambling behind a Dumpster.

“As soon as I heard it, I just went into that mode,” he said.

Robin Dorian, 31, said at first she thought the shooting was a car accident. She said while the groups were carrying their protest signs, the signs weren't raised, and the groups weren't actively protesting.

"We were just walking with them," Dorian said.

The shooting made Baker “furious,” he said.

Hours before the incident, Tenbrink spoke with a reporter for The Sun during the protest and said he had driven to Gainesville from Houston to see Spencer speak.

“This is a mess. I’m disappointed in the course of things,” he said. “It appears that the only answer left is violence, and nobody wants that.”

William Fears told the Sun that he believed James Fields, who drove his car into a crowd of protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, wasn’t unjustified. He also said alt-right movement supporters were “pushing back” against leftist supporters.

“It’s always been socially acceptable to punch a Nazi, to attack people if they have right-wing political leanings,” Fears said. "Us coming in and saying we’re taking over your town, we’re starting to push back, we’re starting to want to intimidate back. We want to show our teeth a little bit because, you know, we’re not to be taken lightly. We don’t want violence; we don’t want harm. But at the end of the day, we’re not opposed to defending ourselves.”

In an Aug. 19 Washington Post article, Fears said his time incarcerated — he was convicted of trespassing, aggravated kidnapping and possessing a controlled substance — led to his joining the alt-right movement.

“I don’t think any race experiences racism in the modern world the way that white people do in a jail,” he told The Post. “In jail, whites come last.”

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