According to court documents unsealed Friday, three teenagers planned to carry out a terror attack at a Chicago mosque.
The FBI intercepted 18-year-old Xavier Pelkey of Waterville, Maine, and a 15-year-old and 17-year-old from Chicago and Kentucky who were allegedly conspiring to meet in Chicago during spring break to carry out mass murder, NBC News reported.
The three planned to enter a Shia mosque âand separate the adults from the children, then murder the adultsâ in the name of the Islamic State group, the court documents stated.
âIf 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,â the FBI said in a court filing.
âThey did not have a plan to escape but rather their plan ended with them being shot by law enforcement.â…