Jammed rifle prevented an apparent mass murder plot at worship center in Aurora – NBC 5 Chicago

Jammed rifle prevented an apparent mass murder plot at worship center in Aurora  NBC 5 Chicago

A teenager whose alleged manifesto professed his hatred for non-whites-is behind bars, his intended hate crime stopped because somebody saw something and said… A teenager whose alleged manifesto professed his hatred for non-whites-is behind bars, his intended hate crime stopped because somebody saw something and said something, as Chuck Goudie reports. UPDATE: Police revealed more details about the alleged attack in a news conference Thursday. An updated story can be found here. Our original NBC 5 Investigates story continues below. The man police say was behind a violent plot targeting a suburban worship center is young and looks even younger, and now he's behind bars. Alexandros Paporakis is 19 and works as a cashier at a fast-food restaurant.

According to police in his northwest suburban hometown of Palatine, Paporakis had plotted to carry out a "mass shooting of Indian people" at a Hindu temple in Aurora, where they say he drove last Sunday decked out for war. Authorities say the 19-year-old was one malfunctioning rifle away from becoming a mass shooter. His alleged target was the largest Hindu temple in southwest suburban Aurora. On Sunday the sprawling place of worship was filled with people and filled with joy-when police say a young man showed up "to kill a significant number of Indians," police say. But fate had a different outcome