LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A Bowling Green man was convicted on multiple terrorism charges and he was working with two Western Kentucky University students at the time.
A federal jury convicted Mirsad Ramic, 34, last month for his involvement with ISIS. Court documents show Ramic and the two WKU students all left the U.S. to support ISIS back in 2014. They purchased one-way tickets out of Nashville and ended up in Gaziantep, Turkey, near the Syrian border, court documents show.
The two students were Saudi nationals on student VISAs at the time.
One of the students died fighting abroad for the effort a year later. The other emailed WKU two times about joining ISIS and expressed desire that ISIS conquer the United States. It's not clear if he is in custody or faces any charges.
"I am with islamic state," one of the students wrote in an email to WKU, per court documents. "In sha Allah [God willing] when we conquer the US I will look for you."
In a news release last month, the U.S. Department of Justice said Ramic attended an ISIS training camp and was seen on social media standing in front of a truck carrying with an anti-aircraft gun and the ISIS flag. All three men spoke during this time about jihad, martyrdom and fighting for ISIS, the DOJ said.
Ramic, a Bosnian national but naturalized U.S. citizen, came to America when he was 10 years old with his mother and sister, investigators said.
He's scheduled to be sentenced in Sept. 24. He faces a maximum penalty of 50 years in prison and a fine of $750,000.
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