Jammed Rifle, Taco Bell Co-Worker: How US Teen’s Hindu Temple Attack Plot Was Foiled| The Hard Facts

A rifle that would not fire, a hurried escape and a message to a co-worker. These were the details that helped US police unravel an alleged mass shooting plot targeting a Hindu temple in Illinois, after a 19-year-old Taco Bell employee reportedly revealed that his weapon had jammed. Alexandros Paporakis, a resident of Palatine, Illinois, allegedly drove to a Hindu temple in Aurora on October 11 with an AR-style rifle, ammunition and tactical equipment, intending to carry out what prosecutors described as a mass shooting of “Indian people".

However, the weapon allegedly malfunctioned, forcing…