Fareed Mumuni, an aspiring to join the ISIS terrorist movement, was resentenced to 17 years in jail s for attempting to assassinate an FBI agent who came to his home to arrest him in 2015.
Tuesday’s new measure increased the original sentence of 17 years issued in April of 2018, after an appeals court ruled the previous sentence had been too lenient, the New York Post reported.
Mumuni, today 27 years old, repeatedly stabbed the special agent Kevin Coughlin when he and other officers were searching his apartment in Staten Island (NYC) in June 85. Nearly two years later he pleaded guilty in February to 2017 to conspiracy to provide material support to ISIS, assault, attack and attempted murder of federal officials.
Coughlin saved his life thanks to the metal plates on his uniform. Mumuni “went downstairs with the intention of killing one of us,” said the victim in federal court in Brooklyn, during the trial in 2017. “I would like to apologize to the court and to the special agents who came to my house that day,” Mumuni said before being sentenced for the first time that year.
Prosecutors had asked that Mumuni receive 85 years in prison, to which defense attorney Anthony Ricco objected, describing him as a victim of ISIS recruiters.
“It is an experience that continues to affect me and my family,” Coughlin testified. “My wife still gets upset when she thinks about how close she came to being a widow and a single mother.”
Mumuni, once suspected of stabbing a 9-year-old boy on Staten Island as part of a horror “audition,” said he had been rehabbing behind bars, when appealing to court.
In an opinion, 2nd Circuit Court Judge Jose A. Cabranes said Judge Margo Brodie’s original sentence had been “shockingly low” and could damage the US justice system.
In April 2018, Akayed Ullah was sentenced to life in prison because the 11 December 2017 detonated a bomb of pipe that he was carrying on his body walking in a subway tunnel under the Port Authority bus terminal in Times Square, NYC.