Documents: The FBI arrested a person who planned an attack on behalf of ISIS in America

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Judicial documents showed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested an 18-year-old young man who was planning to carry out a mass shooting at the Mall of America near Minneapolis in the name of ISIS. He was arrested on Tuesday after an undercover FBI agent sold this young man from Minnesota, named Sheikdon Abdullah Muhammad, a rifle, ammunition and bullet magazines for $600, according to the documents.

Muhammad told the agent that he planned to use these weapons to kill between 30 and 60 people during an event held in the mall in late October. Muhammad was charged with one count of intentional possession of a firearm and ammunition with the aim of committing a terrorist act. His lawyer did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

According to the documents, Mohammed told an FBI source through various communication platforms that he intends to travel abroad to fight under the banner of Al-Shabaab, which is classified as a foreign terrorist organization.

He said that if he was unable to travel, he planned to carry out a mass shooting. He later expressed his desire to join ISIS. Muhammad said in July that he wanted to kill between 30 and 60 people at the Mall of America because he claimed that the owners were Jewish, and that he wanted to kill non-Muslims.

He told the agent that he planned to launch an attack on October 24 during a Hmong Arts Concert that day at the mall. Mall of America is the largest mall in the United States, and includes an amusement park, a huge aquarium, and more than 500 stores. Muhammad appeared for the first time before US Judge Elizabeth Cowan Wright on Wednesday.