Feds: Terror suspect planned to kill college students, mimic Boston Marathon attack

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In this July 26, 2012 photo provided by the Northumberland News, Alexander Ciccolo participates in a peace walk through Brighton, Ontario. Law enforcement officials say Ciccolo was arrested after his father, a Boston police captain, alerted authorities that his son was talking about joining the Islamic State group and setting off bombs.

Feds: Terror suspect planned to kill college students, mimic Boston Marathon attack
Tuesday, July 14, 2015
Joe Dwinell, O’Ryan Johnson

The 23-year-old son of a Boston police captain said he wanted to execute “sinful” college students in a massacre similar to the marathon bombings — and then broadcast the carnage over the 
Internet in a sick tribute to ISIS, federal prosecutors said yesterday.

Alexander Ciccolo is the estranged son of Boston police Capt. Robert Ciccolo, who turned his son in to authorities, a law enforcement official told bostonherald.com yesterday.

Alexander Ciccolo — also known as Ali Al Amriki — lived in an apartment in the Western Massachusetts town of Adams that authorities say was filled with Molotov cocktails, guns, a pressure cooker and other explosives.

Prosecutors say the younger Ciccolo faces possession of firearms charges as part of a “plot to engage in terrorism” in a twisted allegiance to ISIS. That plan, authorities said, included “an attack” on an unnamed university in another state “using assault rifles and improvised explosives.”