Clues to how a young man went from classic teenage boy to accused Islamic State sympathizer

[IronLionZion]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/clues-to-how-a-young-man-went-from-classic-teenage-boy-to-accused-islamic-state-sympathizer/2018/01/01/4d2dfdbc-ef0b-11e7-97bf-bba379b809ab_story.html?utm_term=.688fe95d848a



A skeletal portrait of the Sterling, Va., man federal authorities have accused of obstructing a terrorism investigation began to come into focus on Monday — that of a directionless youth who converted to Islam at the end of high school, married a significantly older Muslim woman, had a child who died as an infant, and became increasingly religious until an arrest Friday that allegedly included him destroying a computer thumb drive that authorities suspect may have contained evidence of terrorism-related activity.

In the months before that arrest, court filings allege, Sean Andrew Duncan, 21, who will appear in federal court on Tuesday, acted in a manner that was “indicative of an individual planning and researching how to conduct an attack,” including research into materials relating to the Islamic State, terrorist attacks, weapons, surveillance tactics and body armor.

Now, family members are struggling to reconcile the man they had believed Duncan to be with the one federal agents say he had become.

“Sean is a very good kid. And that’s all I can really say at this point. I’m floored,” said his mother, Laurie Duncan, a real estate agent in Ocean City. “Sean is a very honest and sincere child, and that’s all I can say, is that he’s a child. He’s 21.”

One type of person is repeatedly slipping under the radar when they profile suspicious people, and that's "classic teenage boys" like Sean Andrew Duncan.

[Blue_true]

1. What I don't understand is with the free access to assault weapons and all the bullets that he can

buy, thanks to republicans, why does he have to research anything to carry out an atrocity. The part that stinks is the nuts always shoot up places that people want to go to, not the hinterlands that vote their enabling republican Reps into office.

[LuckyLib]

2. Sorry, Mom. He is an adult in the eyes of the law. He may have the maturity level of

a six year old -- we have one of those in the WH.

[snooper2]

3. He went full fundie, you never go full fundie LOL

I guess it is a shame he never went to Syria with his other woman friend he could have made a nice home there

[IronLionZion]

4. Any teenage boy wants 2 wives who are much older than him

when one isn't enough