JumpinJack
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A North Carolina man killed his neighbor and stole the man's money so he could buy an assault rifle to carry out an Islamic State-inspired shooting at a concert or club, according to an indictment unsealed Monday.
The federal indictment also accuses Justin Nojan Sullivan of offering an undercover FBI employee money to kill his parents, who he believed would interfere with his plans for an attack.
The 19-year-old suspect, who was arrested in June, "planned to carry out his attack in the following few days at a concert, bar or club where he believed that as many as 1,000 people could be killed using the assault rifle and silencer," the indictment said.
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By the following June, investigators said, he was planning an attack in the U.S. He began having social media conversations with an undercover FBI employee whom he wanted to recruit, saying an attack in the U.S. was the best way to support the Islamic State because travel was risky.
He said during one of the conversations that he planned to buy "an AR-15 assault rifle" at a gun show, and he attempted to buy hollow point ammunition from a gun dealer, the indictment said. He researched how to make silencers and asked the undercover operative to make one for each of them.
Prosecutors: Islamic State Inspired N. Carolina Man's Plan - ABC News
He was going to buy the A.R. at a gun show.
Note: He was caught only because his parents notified authorities months before because their son was destroying religious items in the home. Had they not done that, this may have ended up being another mass killing. He was determined and had it planned out, starting with a murder. He also tried to hire informants to kill his parents, when he thought they might interfere with his plan.
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