The frantic parents of an alleged ISIS-loving wannabe terrorist said they had no idea he was part of a bomb plot at Gracie Mansion and feared he may have killed himself when he fell out of touch Saturday.
Teen Ibrahim Kayumi’s disappearing act prompted his mother to file a missing-person report Saturday, with her telling cops at the time that she last saw him at roughly 10:30 a.m. in their lavish suburban Pennsylvania home, prosecutors revealed Monday in court documents.
The missing-person report came as the 19-year-old Kayumi’s puzzled panicked family also searched parking lots for him, his father Khayer Kayumi told told the New York Times.
“If he’s going to be 5 minutes late, he calls,” the dad told the outlet.
“Maybe he had killed himself,” the father said the family thought when Ibrahim failed to show at the house.
“We didn’t know what was going on.”
A clearly rattled Khayer briefly spoke to The Post on Monday, and when asked if there were any signs of his son’s radicalization, responded, “I don’t talk with my son at all.
“I don’t know. Attorney is working on him. Thank you,” the dad said before hanging up.
As Kayumi’s family frantically looked for him Saturday, the teen was riding in a car with Emir Balat, 18, crossing the George Washington Bridge en route to Manhattan as part of a heinous plot, prosecutors and cops said.
The pair of teens — whom sources said had self-radicalized and taken on the hateful ISIS cause — showed up outside an anti-Islam protest near Gracie Mansion thrown by clownish right-wing bigot Jake Lang.
Video showed Balat hurling a homemade bomb and receiving another IED from Kayumi, prosecutors alleged. Both bombs fortunately failed to detonate.
Investigators alleged the devices were packed with an explosive material known as “Mother of Satan” favored by terrorists.
Cops — including NYPD Chief Aaron Edward, who dramatically leapt into action over a barricade — arrested Balat and Kayumi. The teens both later allegedly admitted to harboring radical Islamist motives.
Balat chillingly said he hoped the failed attack would be deadlier than the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, prosecutors alleged.
When Kayumi was asked why he did it, he simply said, “ISIS,” court documents state. He also copped to watching Islamic State propaganda on his point, the documents alleged.
“Both in the country as well as throughout the West, younger and younger individuals are radicalizing and mobilizing violence, and this is taking place against the backdrop of social media dynamics of online culture, not limited to ISIS across the ideological spectrum,” said Rebecca Weiner, the NYPD’s deputy commissioner of intelligence and counterterrorism, Monday.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday condemned the pair’s alleged extremism.
“I think, first and foremost, just to make it clear to everyone that extremism and hatred of any kind will not be tolerated in our city, and that is regardless of whatever ideology motivates any person to commit an act of violence,” he said. “There is no tolerance for it here.”
The feds raided the homes of both Balat’s and Kayumi’s families in Bucks County, Pa., NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said Monday.
They also searched a storage unit in Pennsylvania allegedly linked to the pair, where they found more homemade explosive devices — which were detonated safely, sources said.
Balat’s parents are naturalized US citizens who immigrated from Turkey.
Kayumi’s family came from Afghanistan and were naturalized between 2004 and 2009.
The teen duo, who are both US citizens, face federal charges of providing material aid to ISIS.
Additional reporting by Reuven Fenton and Joe Marino
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