The funeral for the Massachusetts man law enforcement officials say planned to "randomly kill police officers" was held on Friday.
Usaamah Rahim was killed Tuesday by officials from the FBI and Boston Police, who say he pulled a long military-style knife and lunged at police as he was approached.
Rahim was under investigation by the Joint Terrorism Task Force, who says he had been planning to engage in a "violent attack in the United States." His family said they saw no signs that he had been radicalized or had connections to ISIS.
The funeral was held at the family's mosque in Roxbury, Massachusetts.
Rahim was under 24-hour surveillance by the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force when he was shot and killed after coming at police with a large, military-style knife.
Police say he originally planned to kill someone out of state, but later changed his plan to "go after" the "boys in blue," as he was overheard saying in a phone call. At one point, Rahim made a comparison to "thinking with your head on your chest," which FBI officials say is a possible reference to Islamic State propaganda videos showing severed heads on the chests of beheading victims.
Law enforcement sources tell NBC News that activist and conservative blogger Pamela Gellar — the woman behind the controversial "Draw Muhammad" competition — may also have been a target, but noted that the alleged plot to kill police was more believable than the "fantasy" to behead Geller.
"We don't know whether they even knew where to find her," a source said.
Funeral for alleged terror suspect Usaamah Rahim getting underway at family mosque in Roxbury, MA. pic.twitter.com/VrAH6Fy2Xk
— John Moroney (@JMoNecn) June 5, 2015Boston Police Commissioner William Evans has said that authorities were watching Rahim "for quite a time," but "a level of alarm" prompted them to try to question him Tuesday. He said authorities knew Rahim "had some extremism as far as his views," but he would not confirm media reports that Rahim had been radicalized by online propaganda by the Islamic State group.
