Punjab-origin teen faces trial for plotting murder
Saturday, 11/06/2016
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New York : A Punjab-origin US teenager has been charged with purchasing a gun with a fake ID and allegedly plotting to murder police officers, the authorities here said.
Ranbir Singh Shergill, 18, allegedly threatened to kill members of his family last month with a gun he kept at home in the city’s Queens neighbourhood, a report in the New York Daily News said.
FBI special agent Nicholas Olivero said in the report that a box containing a handgun, seven magazines and 118 rounds of ammunition was found in Shergill’s bedroom.
Shergill admitted that he had travelled to Ohio to buy the gun for $500 from a private owner, showed the seller a fake ID he had obtained on the internet and bought the ammunition in Pennsylvania.
An undated note was found on Shergill’s phone that appeared to be a plan to kill cops, the report said.
As per a complaint filed in Brooklyn Federal Court, the note read: “Do it during a snowstorm, use the snow to mask your presence. Go from Dunkin Donuts on Van Wyck (Expressway) after shooting and killing officers...”
