May 1, 2018 Matin Azizi-Yarand Teen Texas Shopping Center Terrorist Plot Federal investigators said Matin Azizi-Yarand, a student at Plano West High School, was planning to attack Stonebriar Centre mall in Frisco in an ISIS inspired mass shooting. He was arrested on campus on Tuesday May 1, 2018 [1] A Texas state judge sentenced Matin Azizi-Yarand to 20 years in prison April 8, 2019 for solicitation of capital murder and making a terroristic threat [3] He said said he was timing the attack to coincide with Ramadan. He was recruiting others and spent more than $1,400 buying weapons and tactical gear, and had been conducting surveillance of the mall. [3]
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- FBI: North Texas teen planned ISIS-inspired mall shooting fox4news.com May 02 2018
- Teen 'lone wolf' gets 20 years in prison for terrorism plot to shoot up ... https://www.dallasnews.com discussed his plans with an undercover FBI employee to "run and gun" with firearms blazing at the Stonebriar Centre and to kill civilians and police officers during the slaughter. Collin County DA's first terrorism conviction. Federal authorities handed off their investigation to the state because Azizi-Yarand, who was 17 at the time, could not be prosecuted in federal court due to his age.
- Teen pleads guilty to plotting Texas mall terror attack - New York Post https://nypost.com/2019/04/09/teen-pleads-guilty-to-plotting-mall-terror-attack/
- Texas Muslim Wanted to Please Allah by Attacking Mall | Frontpage Mag May 4, 2018 - Matin Azizi-Yarand had two cats and an older sister. He had taken taekwondo and piano lessons. But while he went through life as a normal . "There is a Hindu temple I want to shoot up," Matin messaged. Then he moved on to plotting an attack at Plano West High School, which he attended and where he was eventually arrested. "School is a perfect place for an attack. Even a blind man could take 10 easily," he gloated. His ISIS contact had told him that killing ten or a hundred infidels would be easy. "Just fire where you hear screams." But finally he settled on the Stonebriar Centre, a shopping mall in nearby Frisco. He collected pictures and scouted the mall. "The security guards don't even have guns lmao,” he messaged. Matin worried that the civilians in the mall might have concealed weapons. And he made plans for ambushing the one armed officer in the mall. "I'd actually like to make a cop surrender and drop his gun, then douse him with gasoline and burn him.” The area has a large Muslim community and Matin didn’t want to harm the Muslim “sisters” who frequented the mall. So he decided to attack during Ramadan, "iftar time//to limit Muslim casualties." "No Muslims are going to be at mall when it's time to be breaking your fast//in sha Allah. (Allah willing)” victims might be Hindus, his fellow students, or random shoppers at Stonebridge mall. Matin and his correspondent only worried about accidentally killing Muslim r plans included a message to America. "We will cast terror into your hearts as Allah commanded us,” he wrote. Matin Azizi-Yarand considered himself one of those converts. "When I first became Muslim, fighting was a big part of why I came to this religion,” he messaged an informant. “That's one of the Core things that led me to convert seeing the strength that Muslims had." told the FBI informant that he had met a fellow Muslim who had been arrested while trying to make it to ISIS territory.
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Plano Teen Planned Mass Shooting at NTX Mall: Officials - NBC 5
https://www.nbcdfw.com/.../Frisco-Student-Was-Inspired-by-Islamic-State-to-Carry-O...
May 2, 2018 - The teen, Matin Azizi-Yarand, who lives with his parents in Plano, was ... plot to carry out a mass shooting at Stonebriar Centre mall in Frisco.
Teen Pleads Guilty to Plotting Islamic State-Inspired Mass Shooting at ...
https://ktla.com/.../teen-pleads-guilty-to-plotting-islamic-state-inspired-mass-shooting-...
Prosecutors say Matin Azizi-Yarand pleaded guilty Monday in state court to solicitation of capital murder and making a terroristic threat.
North Texas Teen Pleads Guilty To Mall Terror Plot, Gets 20 Years In ...
https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2019/04/08/texas-teen-pleads-guilty-mall-terror-plot-prison/
3 days ago - Matin Aziz-Yarand was sentenced to 20 years in prison. ... student who plotted a mass shooting at Frisco's Stonebriar Centre and other places.
TEEN PLEADS GUILTY TO PLOTTING TERROR ATTACK AT TEXAS MALL
DALLAS – A suburban Dallas teenager has pleaded guilty to plotting an Islamic State group-inspired mass shooting at a North Texas mall.
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By: Associated Press, April 9, 2019:
A state judge sentenced Matin Azizi-Yarand to 20 years in prison Monday for solicitation of capital murder and making a terroristic threat, state and federal prosecutors announced. The 18-year-old is eligible for parole after serving 10 years.
Azizi-Yarand was arrested last May for plotting to shoot civilians and police at a Frisco mall in a rampage authorities said he was timing to coincide with Ramadan. IS has called on its supporters to carry out attacks during the Muslim holy month.
The then-high school student had been recruiting others to participate in the shooting and planned to explain it with the release of a “Message to America,” according to prosecutors. He spent more than $1,400 buying weapons and tactical gear, and had been conducting surveillance of the mall.
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