The FBI has launched a federal terrorism
investigation into a weekend stabbing in Roanoke, Virginia, looking at
whether the attacker may have been trying to behead his victim in an
alleged ISIS-inspired assault, sources told ABC News.
Federal authorities have been aware of the alleged attacker, 20-year-old
Wasil Farooqui of the Roanoke area, for some time, sources familiar
with the case told ABC News. In the past year, sources said, he traveled
to Turkey and may have tried to sneak into Syria, where ISIS is
recruiting and inspiring sympathizers from around the world.
Farooqui was arrested Saturday by Roanoke County Police on charges of
assault with malicious wounding, and he is being held without bond at
the Western Virginia Regional Jail, according to the sources and a jail
database.
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