North Texas teenager arrested, charged with planning ISIS-inspired mass shooting

5/2/18
 
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from Fort Worth Star Telegram,
5/2/18:

A high school student has been arrested and faces charges of planning to carry out an ISIS-inspired mass shooting at a local mall this month and was looking for assistance, authorities said Wednesday.

Matin Azizi-Yarand, 17, faces charges of making a terroristic threat and criminal solicitation of capital murder, the Collin County district attorney’s office said.

The target was to be the Stonebriar Centre Mall in Frisco, according to his arrest affidavit.

“Azizi-Yarand was inspired by ISIS to conduct this attack, which he had planned for mid-May,” the office said in a news release.

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