Palatine Police to Give Update on Thwarted Alleged Mass Shooting Plot in Aurora

Palatine police are expected to release more details Thursday about a man accused of planning a mass shooting.

The nineteen year old lives in Palatine, but police believe he was plotting an attack in Aurora.

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Alexandros Paporakis, 19, is charged with making a terrorist threat and unlawful possession of a weapon.

Detectives believe the suspect may have been targeting a Hindu place of worship in Aurora.

At his Palatine condo, investigators said they found an AR-style rifle with no serial number, hundreds of rounds of ammunition , a tactical vest, gas can, and items with Nazi symbolism.

Paporakis penned an eight-page manifesto using derogatory and racially charged slurs and specifically targeted people of Indian descent at a Hindu house of worship, according to court documents in the case. He pledged he would die himself, but not before killing as many minorities as possible, prosecutors said.

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In pretrial detention documents obtained by the ABC7 I-Team, prosecutors said Paporakis described himself as a “sociopathic white supremacist Neo Nazi filled with hatred” who drove to a location, attempted to fire his gun at a man, but the gun jammed. He had been planning the attack for two years, according to court records.

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