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Report: Stabbing Of 9-Year-Old Staten Island Boy Was "Botched ISIS Audition"
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Ben Yakas
Published Dec 27, 2015
Modified Jul 24, 2017
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A 21-year-old Staten Island resident who was arrested last June for attacking an FBI agent apparently stabbed a 9-year-old boy in Staten Island earlier this year in a "botched ISIS audition," according to a report in the NY Post today.
Cops believe that suspect Fareed Mumini attacked Jermaine Culver while he walked to school in Mariners Harbor on January 9th, stabbing him in his back, head, neck and arm. Culver survived the attack, but was understandably traumatized, and was sent to Atlanta to live with an aunt. The boy's family is frustrated because no arrests have been made in the attack: “We still don’t know,” the victim's brother, Shawn Williams, told the Post. “It seems like the cops gave up on it."
Sources tell them that NYPD detectives are frustrated because the feds "won’t give them access to terror suspect Fareed Mumuni." They add: "Investigators believe that if Mumuni was the man who knifed Jermaine, the attack could have been Mumuni’s audition for the ISIS, the bloodthirsty terror group that has released a series of videos of hostage decapitations." In the security footage of the attack on the child, "it looks like he was trying to slit his throat."
Mumuni, whom the FBI says "espouses violent jihadist beliefs and is a fervent supporter," attacked an FBI agent with a kitchen knife on Staten Island in June. At the time, Mumini allegedly told investigators "he had pledged his allegiance to ISIS and that he planned to travel overseas to join the group. If he wasn't able to join ISIS overseas, he allegedly planned to attack law enforcement officers at home, and was coordinating that plan with others."
Mumini was also accused of conspiring with Munther Omar Saleh, a 20-year-old college student in Queens who was charged with plotting to blow up NYC landmarks.
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