'I'm like a bomb': FBI says Tennessee teenager plotted mass shooting at Nashville mosque

Federal agents arrested a teenager over a plot to carry out a mass shooting at a Nashville mosque, News Channel 5 reported on Monday.

The plot had first been flagged in December by Court Watch, according to reporter Phil Williams, but largely went unnoticed by other news sites. The teen was arrested that month.

According to prosecutors, 18-year-old Gunner Joseph Fisher was communicating threats to carry out a mass shooting on Instagram. The parent company Meta, which also runs Facebook, tipped off the FBI about the messages.

Fisher reportedly had been making a series of unsettling threats, including "I'm like a bomb," and “When I was a f--king child, before I even got into school, I saw crowds of people and (fantasized) about someone mowing them down.”

Fisher, who according to the report holds a murderous hatred of Black people, Jews, and Muslims, is said to have repeatedly changed his plans for where exactly he would carry out his massacre. At first, he plotted to target his school. Then, he reportedly wanted to attack a furry convention, saying, “Now my life is going to end with me dead next to a bunch of f--s in fur suits.”

But he ultimately settled on targeting a Mosque in Nashville, writing, “I changed to a mosque like Brenton” — a reference to Brenton Tarrant, the man who killed 51 people and injured 89 others in mass shootings targeting two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand in 2019.

This story comes after an entirely separate shooting that took place in Nashville this month at Antioch High School. In that incident, 17-year-old Solomon Henderson, who reportedly believed racist and antisemitic conspiracy theories, admired neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes and far-right Black activist Candace Owens, and considered himself part of the woman-resenting "incel" movement, fatally shot a female classmate and wounded another male classmate before turning the gun on himself.