Plano, TX – Officials: Teen Inspired By IS Planned Mass Shooting At Dallas-area Mall

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    Matin Azizi-Yarand, 17, appears in a booking photo provided by the Frisco Police Department, May 2, 2018.  Frisco Police Department/Handout via REUTERSPlano, TX – A suburban Dallas teenager accused of planning a mass shooting at a mall inspired by the Islamic State terror group has been charged with terrorism.

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    The Collin County district attorney’s office says 17-year-old Matin Azizi-Yarand of Plano had planned to release a “Message to America” explaining the attack.

    Authorities say he spent more than $1,400 buying weapons and tactical gear, and had been trying to recruit others to help him in the shooting planned for this month.

    Authorities learned of the plan when Azizi-Yarand began corresponding with an FBI informant.

    Azizi-Yarand is charged with criminal solicitation of capital murder and making a terroristic threat.

    He’s being held at the Collin County jail on a $3 million bond. Online jail records don’t indicate that he has an attorney.


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    lazy-boy
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    lazy-boy
    5 years ago

    Islam inspires terror and that means mass murders but Judaism inspires helping others….

    I can not figure out what any one with a brain sees in Islam…..