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Jax man will receive sentence after admitting to supporting terrorism

Shelton Thomas Bell Federal investigators say Shelton Bell attempted to provide support for a Jihad terrorist plot. He has been indicted for conspiring and attempting to provide material support to terrorists.

The young man who admitted to supporting terrorists will learn his fate.

Shelton Bell will be sentenced at the federal courthouse in downtown Jacksonville Thursday.

He pled guilty to supporting terrorists linked to al Qaeda in March.  Bell also said he tried to recruit two other people when he was a teenager.

He admitted to the terms of a plea deal that stated he was “ready to fight, ready to kill others and ready to die.”

He could face up to 30 years behind bars.

WOKV has a reporter outside the courthouse awaiting the sentence.

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