NBC 5 Investigates has learned that a teenager linked by federal authorities to an alleged plot to attack a Chicago-area mosque is a 15-year-old who lives in suburban Hampshire.
The charges against Pelkey state that the Hampshire teenager and a second juvenile, who claimed to be from Canada, knew him as “Abdullah” in online Instagram chats. The three reportedly planned to meet in Chicago during spring break to carry out a coordinated attack on an unspecified Shia mosque.
The Hampshire teen, identified in court documents only as “juvenile #1,” reportedly told investigators that the alleged plot included plans to enter the mosque, separate the children from the adults and then murder the adults. An FBI agent stated, “If 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.
According to the search warrant application unsealed in Maine, the conversations spanned from late November 2021 through February. Those conversations began with the Hampshire teenager, who called himself “albilarusi” online, exchanging repeated messages with a juvenile who purported to be from Canada, identified as “French.jafar.” . During those conversations, the Hampshire teen reportedly referred to Abdullah as “the bomb guy.
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