Prosecutors accused a University of Delaware student of planning to attack the campus police after he was arrested with a machine gun and had a notebook praising the act of martyrdom.
Court documents said police first spotted Luqmaan Khan, 25, sitting in his car after midnight in a Wilmington park.
Officers spoke to the “visibly nervous” suspect during the Nov. 24 interaction, the filing said, and he was handcuffed for resisting arrest.
Police searched his car and found a handgun that had been converted into a machine gun, several extended gun magazines, body armor and a notebook with drawings of the University of Delaware police department’s layout, court documents said.
Prosecutors said the diagram detailed entry and exit points, “warfare techniques” and strategies to avoid being detected by police.
In another section of the notebook, Mr. Khan allegedly wrote “battle efficiency: kill all — martyrdom.”
The filing said that during his post-arrest interview, Mr. Khan told investigators that becoming a martyr is “one of the greatest things you can do” and was his goal.
The FBI raided his home soon after the arrest and seized another handgun converted into a machine gun.
Mr. Khan, who moved from Pakistan to the U.S. as a boy and is a legal resident, faces gun charges.
