--- title: ISIS Supporter Tried to 'Shoot Up' U.S. Church, FBI Says description: Federal authorities have arrested a Michigan man they say is an ISIS supporter who wanted to carry out an attack on a 6,000-member church. canonical: https://time.com/4210699/michigan-isis-supporter-church-shooting-fbi/ author: NBC News article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-06T17:03:59.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T14:50:03.647Z article:section: U.S. og:title: ISIS Supporter Tried to 'Shoot Up' U.S. Church, FBI Says og:description: Federal authorities have arrested a Michigan man they say is an ISIS supporter who wanted to carry out an attack on a 6,000-member church. og:url: https://time.com/4210699/michigan-isis-supporter-church-shooting-fbi/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: ISIS Supporter Tried to 'Shoot Up' U.S. Church, FBI Says twitter:description: Federal authorities have arrested a Michigan man they say is an ISIS supporter who wanted to carry out an attack on a 6,000-member church. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Michigan ISIS Supporter 'Tried to Shoot Up' Church, FBI Says by [Elizabeth Chuck / NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## Elizabeth Chuck / NBC News Feb 6, 2016 5:03 PM CUT by [Elizabeth Chuck / NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## Elizabeth Chuck / NBC News Feb 6, 2016 5:03 PM CUT Federal authorities have arrested a Michigan man they say is an ISIS supporter who wanted to carry out an attack on a 6,000-member Detroit church. Khalil Abu-Rayyan, 21, of Dearborn Heights, allegedly had guns and a large knife and told an undercover FBI agent that he “tried to shoot up a church one day.” “I bought a bunch of bullets. I practiced reloading and unloading,” he said in an online conversation, the FBI said. Investigators did not specify which church Abu-Rayyan allegedly was eyeing, but said it has a capacity of 6,000 members, according to a criminal complaint unsealed Thursday in U.S. . . [_Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News_](http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/isis-terror/michigan-isis-supporter-tried-shoot-6-000-member-church-fbi-n512701?cid=par-time%5F20160206 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4210699/michigan-isis-supporter-church-shooting-fbi/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4210699/michigan-isis-supporter-church-shooting-fbi/"},"headline":"Michigan ISIS Supporter 'Tried to Shoot Up' Church, FBI Says","datePublished":"2016-02-06T17:03:59.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T14:50:03.647Z","description":"He was foiled when his father found his gun","url":"https://time.com/4210699/michigan-isis-supporter-church-shooting-fbi/","keywords":["Crime"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Elizabeth Chuck / NBC News"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4210699/michigan-isis-supporter-church-shooting-fbi/","name":"Michigan ISIS Supporter 'Tried to Shoot Up' Church, FBI Says"}}]}] ```