What happened: On March 25, a man from Maine and two teens plotted an ISIS-inspired attack on a Shia Muslim mosque near Chicago. Xavier Pelkey of Waterville, Maine, and the two teenagers, one from the Chicago region and the other from Kentucky, whose names were not disclosed due to their age. communicated via Instagram and other chat platforms, according to the FBI, with intentions to meet in Chicago over “spring break.” Due of their age, the teenagers were not given names. Details: According to a court complaint, one of the teenagers told the FBI that the plan was to “enter the Shia mosque and separate the elders from the children, then kill the adults.” “If they hadn’t run into law enforcement at that point, they would have carried out the identical plan at another Shia mosque or Jewish synagogue,” the FBI stated in their petition that “they did not have a strategy to flee; rather, their scheme ended with them being tracked by law officers.” The raid: According to FBI agents, they recovered many guns from Pelkey’s residence, including a Remington pump shotgun, swords, knives, a bow and arrows, multiple homemade ISIS flags, and multiple electronic devices. They went on to claim that they discovered several hand-painted ISIS flags and three improvised devices that used pyrotechnics and purportedly contained shrapnel.