US man plots mass shooting at Hindu temple, fails when gun jammed: Authorities

A mass shooting targeting a Hindu temple in the US failed when the alleged assailants rifle jammed according to authorities who arrested him after a tip from a coworkerThe 19yearold man who described himself as a white supremacist Neo Nazi and poured venom in a document against Indians and Hindus was produced in court on Wednesday local time and charged with making a terrorist threat and unlawful possession of weaponsAccording to authorities he had by his admission to the coworker gone to a Hindu temple in Aurora about 70 kilometres from Chicago on Saturday and tried to open fire but his gun jammed preventing a mass shootingThere are three temples in Aurora and police have notified temples in the area about the threatAlexandros Paporakis was arrested outside his home in Palatine about 60 kilometres from Chicago on Sunday after a tip from the person who worked with him at a fastfood restaurantWhen he was produced in the county court in Rolling Meadows and charged the judge remanded him to custody till October 30 when he is scheduled to appear in court nextPalatine Police Chief William Nord said a search of Paporakiss house found a rifle loaded magazines hundreds of rounds of ammunition and body armourAccording to police the body armour had white supremacist extremist designsThe seriousness of this alleged threat cannot be overstated Nord saidOn Sunday Paporakis asked his coworker in a text message to call him prosecutors saidDuring their call he told the coworker that he had tried to carry out the mass shooting but the rifle didnt fire when he pulled the trigger and he fled superfast according to prosecutorsThe coworker who has not been identified contacted the police in Mount Prospect who passed on the tip to Palatine authoritiesPaporakis sent the coworker a photo of himself in a tactical vest and a copy of an eightpage manifesto titled Why I Fought AKA Aurora Shooters ManifestoCourt documents said his manifesto was filled with racist outbursts against people of Indian descent and a Hindu templeHe declared that he would die after killing as many minorities as he could according to prosecutorsProsecutors documents in court alleged that Paporakis who had described himself as a sociopathic white supremacist Neo Nazi filled with hatred had been planning the attack for two yearsNord said Reading through the manifesto he did state some extremist ideologies and talked about violence he talked about mass killings and how he wanted to carry out this mass shootingPolice said that with the help of the Federal Bureau of Investigation they were able to gain access to his electronic equipment and communicationsIn his writings he also expressed hatred of Jewish people and nonwhite people including African Americans officials saidAccording to prosecutors Paporakis may have mental health issuesThe coworker told police Paporakis was behaving manically over the weekendPolice said he lived with his mother who failed to stop him from buying a weaponThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever