Learning more about possible terror suspect in Warwick

By News Staff
Reporting by Rebecca Turco
news@abc6.com

We are learning more tonight about the man federal agents are looking at in Warwick for possible ties to a terrorist suspect in Boston.

Authorities have been outside the home on Aspinet Drive since Tuesday but they aren’t saying whether Nick, as neighbors identify him, is the third and final suspect in a plot to behead police officers.

The 20-year-old isn’t facing any charges and has not been arrested, but recent activity on social media under his name has raised suspicion.

“How to make a machete” and “how to make a sniper rifle” are just some of the videos watched recently by Nick, the Warwick man living in the home that’s at the center of the investigation.

YouTube activity listed under his name stopped six days ago, right before police set up shop outside the home on Tuesday.

The question is whether Nick is one of the three suspects accused of plotting to behead a conservative blogger and police officers. One of the terror suspects, Usaama Rahim, was shot and killed by police in a confrontation Tuesday in Boston. A second suspect, David Wright, was arrested in Everett, MA, that same day.

Senator Reed says in recent years, social media has bright forth a whole new realm of self-motivated terrorists.

“People who have no direct contact overseas but are radicalized through the internet or through other activities and we have to be very conscious of them,” said Reed.

Still, many questions are still unanswered in this sensitive federal investigation.

ABC6 News is told they police and will remain on Aspinet Drive in Warwick until further notice.

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