Post by Logan on Feb 1, 2016 18:00:05 GMT -6
North Carolina teen charged in ISIS-inspired plot to murder 1,000 people now indicted for murdering elderly neighbor
A North Carolina teen already facing federal charges for planning an ISIS-inspired mass shooting has been indicted for murdering his Burke County neighbor in December 2014, authorities said.
Justin Nojan Sullivan, 19, has been jailed since June 19 for his plot to kill "as many as 1,000 people" after purchasing a semiautomatic AR-15 rifle at a Hickory gun show over the summer. But before he put the Islamic State massacre into motion, authorities say the Morganton teen stole a rifle from his father, then shot dead his 74-year-old neighbor, John Bailey Clark Jr., on Dec. 18 and buried the body in his yard.
Sullivan, who lived with his parents a few houses down from his elderly victim, then hid the .22-caliber Marlin rifle in a crawl space underneath his home, along with muddy clothes, a black ski mask and a lockpick kit, according to a federal indictment.
A Burke County grand jury handed down the indictment Monday, David Learner, the state’s district attorney for the 25th District, told the Daily News. His office long suspected the teen, but had the luxury of being "very deliberate" in the investigation because Sullivan has been in custody since his federal arrest, he said.
Read more: www.nydailynews.com/news/national/n-teen-terror-suspect-charged-murdering-neighbor-article-1.2516572
A North Carolina teen already facing federal charges for planning an ISIS-inspired mass shooting has been indicted for murdering his Burke County neighbor in December 2014, authorities said.
Justin Nojan Sullivan, 19, has been jailed since June 19 for his plot to kill "as many as 1,000 people" after purchasing a semiautomatic AR-15 rifle at a Hickory gun show over the summer. But before he put the Islamic State massacre into motion, authorities say the Morganton teen stole a rifle from his father, then shot dead his 74-year-old neighbor, John Bailey Clark Jr., on Dec. 18 and buried the body in his yard.
Sullivan, who lived with his parents a few houses down from his elderly victim, then hid the .22-caliber Marlin rifle in a crawl space underneath his home, along with muddy clothes, a black ski mask and a lockpick kit, according to a federal indictment.
A Burke County grand jury handed down the indictment Monday, David Learner, the state’s district attorney for the 25th District, told the Daily News. His office long suspected the teen, but had the luxury of being "very deliberate" in the investigation because Sullivan has been in custody since his federal arrest, he said.
Read more: www.nydailynews.com/news/national/n-teen-terror-suspect-charged-murdering-neighbor-article-1.2516572