MASSACHUSETTS
A federal grand jury indicted David Daoud Wright, aka Dawud Sharif Abdul Khaliq, aka Dawud Sharif Abdul Khaliq, 26, of Everett, Massachusetts, and Nicholas Alexander Rovinski, aka Nuh Amriki, aka Nuh Andalusi, 25, of Warwick, Rhode Island, officials announced this week.
The two were charged in a superseding indictment with conspiracy to commit acts of terrorism transcending national boundaries
In 2015, the grand jury charged the two with being ISIS supporters and other conspirators including Usaamah Abdullah Rahim, 26, Wright’s uncle, to commit acts of terrorism.
On June 2, 2015, Rahim was shot and killed after he attacked law enforcement officers in a Roslindale, Massachusetts, parking lot.
The superseding indictment alleges that, beginning in at least February 2015, Wright began discussing ISIS’ call to kill non-believers in the United States with Rahim and Rovinski and they began plotting and recruiting members for their “martyrdom” operation.
In March 2015, the indictment alleges that Wright drafted organizational documents for a “Martyrdom Operations Cell” and conducted Internet search queries about firearms, the effectiveness of tranquilizers on human subjects and setting up secret militias in the United States.
Simultaneously, Rahim was communicating with ISIS members overseas, including Junaid Hussain. On Aug. 24, 2015, Hussain was killed in an airstrike in Raqqah, Syria.
Beginning in or about May 2015, Hussain allegedly communicated directly with Rahim, the indictment states.
Rahim in turn communicated Hussain’s instructions to Wright, with regard to the murder of a person residing in New York.
In preparation for their attack, Rovinski conducted research on weapons that could be used to behead their victims.
Since being arrested, Rovinski has sought to continue their planned attacks and has written letters to Wright from prison discussing ways to take down the U.S. government and decapitate non-believers.
The two are facing long prison sentences if convicted of the charges.
Click Here to read the Indictment: Department of Justice