PALATINE, IL — A Cook County grand jury indicted a Palatine teenager in connection with his attempt to conduct a mass shooting at a Hindu temple in Aurora, according to U.S. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-8th).
Alexandros Paporakis, 19, was indicted on one count of making a terrorist threat and one count of unlawful use of a weapon, his office said Monday, saying the suspect was a "a self-proclaimed 'sociopathic white supremacist neo-Nazi.'"
Investigators have not publicly identified the temple allegedly targeted, but Krishnamoorthi said he and his family were in attendance at the time of the planned attack Oct. 11.
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Mount Prospect and Palatine police were able to disrupt Paporakis's plans after a coworker of the teen brought the alleged threat to investigators' attention, Patch reported.
According to investigators, Paporakis, of the 1300 block of North Baldwin Court in Palatine, shared a document outlining an alleged mass shooting plan, along with images depicting a rifle, rifle magazines, body armor and tactical equipment.
Investigators confirmed Paporakis's red Acura RDX entered the temple's parking lot around 12:25 p.m. Oct. 11 and left around 12:38 p.m., Patch reported. Some accounts suggested Paporakis' rifle malfunctioned. Information about a possible malfunction came from a communication to an associate and a video that possibly showed the gun jamming, but it was unclear whether the video was recorded in a parking lot, at a residence or inside a vehicle.
Krishnamoorthi's office did not immediately respond to Patch's request for comment at the time of publication.
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