FBI officials revealed on Friday that a group of teens allegedly plotted to shoot up a mosque in Chicago during spring break.
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The unsealed federal court documents disclosed that the murder plot involved 18-year-old Xavier Pelkey of Waterville, Maine, a 17-year-old in Kentucky, and a 15-year-old from Chicago. According to the reports, the trio met on Instagram where they discussed the alleged murder plot and planned to meet in Chicago around late March during Spring Break. Pelkey used the alias “Abdullah” and told his accomplices that he would buy ammunition, and guns for the potential attack on the Shia mosque. Additionally, Pelkey built a homemade explosive device “to get more people”
According to the New York Post, the teens planned to, “enter the Shia mosque and separate the adults from the children, then murder the adults. If they had not encountered law enforcement at that point, they would continue on to another Shia mosque or Jewish synagogue and execute the same plan.” They also didn’t have an end goal for the plan but expected to be shot by law enforcement.
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Investigators discovered multiple weapons from the 15-year-old and Pelkey plus several ISIS flags from their homes. Pelkey was charged with possession of an unregistered destructive device. If convicted, he faces a sentence of up to ten years in prison.