Student Arrested with Assault Weapons
Prosecutors have charged a University of Delaware student with plotting an attack on campus police after he was apprehended with a machine gun and a notebook that glorified martyrdom.
Court documents reveal that police first encountered Luqmaan Khan, 25, in his vehicle late at night in a Wilmington park. Officers described him as “visibly nervous” during their interaction on November 24, leading to his handcuffing for resisting arrest.
A search of Khan’s car yielded a handgun modified into a machine gun, multiple extended magazines, body armor, and a notebook containing detailed drawings of the University of Delaware police department’s layout.
The notebook included diagrams outlining entry and exit points, “warfare techniques,” and methods to evade law enforcement. In one section, Khan reportedly wrote about achieving “battle efficiency: kill all — martyrdom.”
During questioning after his arrest, Khan expressed to investigators that becoming a martyr is “one of the greatest things you can do” and stated it was his ultimate goal.
The FBI conducted a raid on his residence shortly after the arrest and confiscated another handgun that had also been converted into a machine gun.
Khan moved from Pakistan to the United States as a child and is currently a legal resident. He now faces multiple firearm-related charges.
