(Dallas Morning News) A former Plano high school student was sentenced Monday to 20 years in state prison after pleading guilty to an ISIS-inspired plot to commit mass murder at a Collin County mall.
Matin Azizi-Yarand, 18, discussed his plans with an undercover FBI employee to “run and gun” with firearms blazing at the Stonebriar Centre Mall in Frisco and to kill civilians and police officers during the slaughter.
It was believed to be the Collin County DA’s first terrorism conviction. Federal authorities handed off their investigation to the state because Azizi-Yarand, who was 17 at the time, could not be prosecuted in federal court due to his age.
“This suspect’s arrest saved lives,” said U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown of the Eastern District of Texas, during a news conference at the Collin County courthouse Monday.
