Houssen Zorkot was a student planning to study surgery and become a medical doctor, but his plans changed when he was caught in a local park carrying a loaded AK-47 rifle, which is the weapon of choice for terrorists worldwide. Zorkot had recently visited Lebanon to see his Lebanese immigrant parents and brought back photos of himself posing with Hezbollah, a terrorist group responsible for hundreds of American deaths. Zorkot's website paid tribute to Hezbollah and he assaulted a store with his semi-automatic AK-47, typing a message on an image of a Hezbollah fighter saying "The start of my Personal Jihad".