The Philadelphia district attorney’s office said Wednesday a local teen arrested last year as part of an ongoing terror investigation may have been plotting to bomb the city’s Pride parade.

Muhyyee-Ud-din Abdul-Rahman, now 18, was 17 when he was arrested in August 2023. Although a juvenile at the time of his arrest, Abdul-Rahman is being prosecuted as an adult.

Authorities said that after his arrest, Abdul-Rahman told investigators he wanted to travel to Syria to join two groups known as Katibat al Tawhid wal Jihad and Hay’at Tahrir al Sham. The United States has designated KTJ as a global terrorist organization and says it’s affiliated with al-Qaida.

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