Washington DC/IBNS, Oct. 15 -- A 19-year-old man has been arrested in the United States for allegedly planning a mass shooting targeting a Hindu place of worship in the Aurora area of Illinois, media reports said.

Alexandros Paporakis, a resident of Palatine, allegedly possessed a manifesto containing white supremacist ideologies and references to violence against people of Indian descent.

His next hearing is scheduled for October 30.

The arrest comes just two weeks after the Shree Swaminarayan Vadtal Dham Hindu Mandir in Richmond Heights, Ohio, was vandalised.

The investigation began after an individual reported that Paporakis was allegedly planning a mass shooting.

According to investigators, Paporakis had shared a document outlini...