Pakistani immigrant and former University of Delaware student was arrested with a cache of guns, ammunition and body armor
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A Pakistani immigrant and former University of Delaware student was arrested with a cache of guns, ammunition and body armor, and a manifesto allegedly explaining plans to “kill all” and achieve “martyrdom” with a mass shooting on the school’s campus.
Luqmaan Khan, 25, was arrested just before midnight on Nov. 24 after cops found him in his pickup truck in a park after hours, and decided to search the car when he began acting suspiciously.
What they allegedly found inside was alarming — a .357 Glock pistol, numerous loaded 27-round ammunition magazines, and body armor plates. The pistol was even fitted into a kit which converted it into a semi-automatic rifle, according to prosecutors.
And they also found a notebook filled with handwritten notes detailing a plot to use those weapons to shoot up his former school’s campus police department, with a map of its headquarters drawn out and marked with planned entrance and exit points.
It included phrases like “kill all – martyrdom” throughout, ABC 6 reported, detailed how to evade capture after the planned shooting, and explained how a number of other weapons would be used – which police said were all “premeditated assault plans” and obvious “warfare techniques.”
The full motivation behind the alleged attack remains unclear, but Khan allegedly told police after his arrest that becoming a martyr was “one of the greatest things you can do.”
One campus police officer was named in the plans, though it remains unclear why.
Khan was born in Pakistan, but has lived in the US since he was a “youth” and is an American citizen, New Castle County Police told The Post.
After the arrest, the FBI raided Khan’s Wilmington home and found that the arsenal in his truck was just the beginning.
An AR-style rifle equipped with a red-dot scope was found in the home, along with a second Glock pistol – this one equipped with an illegal device that converted it to a fully automatic machine gun capable of shooting 1,200 rounds per minute.
