STATEN ISLAND — The stabbing of a 9-year-old Staten Island boy in January may have been a "botched ISIS audition" by a Mariners Harbor man arrested in June for being part of a terror plot, the New York Post reported.
NYPD investigators believe Fareed Mumuni attacked the boy and stabbed him in the neck as he walked to school Jan. 9, the Post reported.
Mumuni lived only 600 yards from where the boy was stabbed, the Post reported.
After the attack, the boy walked home and was then rushed to Richmond University Medical Center in stable condition, police said.
He was sent to live with his aunt in Atlanta after the stabbing and family members told the Post they were frustrated no arrests had been made.
“We still don’t know,” his brother, Shawn Williams, told the paper. “It seems like the cops gave up on it.”
Investigators believe Mumuni carried out the attack as an "audition" for ISIS, but haven't been granted access by federal agents to questions him, the Post reported.
Mumuni was arrested in June after he tried to stab a federal agent with a knife, according to the Brooklyn U.S. Attorney's office. That attack happened when members of the Joint Terrorism Task Force tried to search his home with a warrant in June.
He later told inspectors he planned to go to ISIS-controlled territories to join the group and intended to attack law enforcement members if it didn't pan out, investigators said.
He met with Munther Omar Saleh — a Queens College student arrested June 13 and accused of trying to attack police officers with a knife — several times to discuss a plan to attack law enforcement members, according to the federal complaint.
