An ISIS wannabe once suspected of stabbing a 9-year-old Staten Island boy as part of a terror “audition” copped to a plea deal in another case Thursday.
Fareed Mumuni, 22, admitted to plotting to support the terror group and to repeatedly stabbing a federal agent with a knife as officers searched his home in June 2015.
Clad in a kufti, the soft-spoken man told Brooklyn Federal Court Justice Margo Brodie that he had been chatting with friends about “traveling over seas to join ISIS to defend Islam.
“I intentionally attempted to kill [a law-enforcement officer] by lunging at him with a knife,” Mumuni added.
Assistant US Attorney Alex Solomon told the court that Mumuni had repeatedly stabbed an FBI agent with a kitchen knife, which he had hidden “in a t-shirt in his bedroom.” Solomon said Mumuni also kept another kitchen knife in his car.
He faces up to 85 years in prison when sentenced May 16.
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The Staten Island man was at one point also a suspect in the January 2015 stabbing of 9-year-old Jermaine Culver, in what authorities called a terror “audition.”
The investigation into the child’s stabbing remains open, NYPD cops said. They refused to comment on whether Mumuni was still a suspect.
Bu his lawyer, Kenneth Montgomery, called the allegations that his client had hurt a child “complete and utter nonsense.”
Mumuni lived only 600 yards from Culver, who survived being knifed in the neck, head and back.
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