In rural North Carolina, teen planned to unveil an 'Islamic State of North America'

ASHEVILLE -- Calling Justin Sullivan’s plot a “cold and calculated” conspiracy of ISIS-inspired terror, a federal judge in Asheville sent the 21-year-old Morganton man to prison for the rest of his life.

Sullivan showed no reaction as U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger handed down his sentence. He stood silently in a brown inmate jumpsuit, his left shoulder slouched.

According to documents from the two-year-old case, Sullivan planned to unveil his “Islamic State of North America” with an attack on a concert or club that would kill hundreds of people.

During rambling, muffled remarks to the judge, Sullivan told Reidinger he was not “a cold-blooded killer.”

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