Ted Hickey Jr. was a former marine living with his wife in Meriden, Connecticut

when he says he started to feel uneasy toward Muslims.

With each story of another terrorist attack, his resentment grew.

So he admits he was concerned in 2007, when a new Amadee mosque opened next door to his house,

just across a small field.

Ted watched his neighbors through binoculars. I look out one day the

place is like a beehive and there was all kinds of men coming and going and

then I was like wait I'm in here and I'm thinking they're plotting such a mystery, you know, you don't know what they're doing in there.

Ted, who was in his 40s and working at a car dealership, lived next to the mosque for years,

peering over from time to time without incident.

And then came November 13, 2015.

Carnage and horror on the streets of Paris tonight.

The French President has declared a state of emergency and has

deadly explosions at a packed sports stadium, machine guns at a rock

terrorists killed 130 people in Paris that night and injured hundreds more.

In Connecticut, just hours after the attack,

Ted was returning home.

I had a good night.

I was out with friends, watched the band, got out of the car and was walking in and I kind of looked over and I saw the mosque.

The more he looked at it that night, more worked up he got he convinced himself he needed to act keep him on edge

So Ted took out his rifle and pointed at the mosque kind of think well, I'm gonna do something you, I'm going to do something, you know, I'm going to help my community, you know, and

then in case there was an extremist in there and my drunken Jack Dale's thinking, I was

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