SAN FRANCISCO, CA — The FBI has thwarted a planned terrorist attack targeting Pier 39 in San Francisco on Christmas Day, according to a criminal complaint filed in US District Court in Stanislaus County, California. The suspect, Everitt Aaron Jameson, was arrested at his home in Modesto Wednesday. Police seized weapons, ammunition and a note claiming responsibility for the planned attack. The FBI had been covertly corresponding with Jameson online.

According to the criminal complaint posted online by the New York Times, Jameson was devoted to ISIS and inspired by a terrorist attack in New York that killed eight people on Oct. 31. In that case, a terrorist drove a vehicle into a crowd of people. In addition, he was inspired by the Dec. 2, 2015 shooting attack in San Bernardino that killed 14 and injured another 22.

A former sharpshooter in the US Marines, Jameson told the FBI agent that he planned an attack that combined the two threats — a vehicle and shooting. He had no escape plan because he planned to die in the attack.