Homegrown Terrorist Pleads Guilty to Attempting to Support ISIS

Massachusetts state and local police and fire department members commemorate the one-year anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombings on April 15, 2014. On July 8, a young man inspired by the Marathon bombings plead guilty to attempting to assist ISIS. Jared Wickerham/Getty Images

A 20-year-old Texas man who was a would-be copycat of the Boston Marathon bombers entered a guilty plea to attempting to provide material support to the overseas terrorist group ISIS by offering to be martyred and disseminating information about making bombs.

Kaan Sercan Damlarkaya, a U.S. citizen, presented the plea to District Judge Andrew Hanen in federal court in Houston, on July 8.